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...spend so many years in the wilderness, aspiring to be "literary"? "It felt like the safe thing," he admits. "But eventually I realized that the New Jersey of Philip Roth is as much a pure product of make-believe as Alice's Wonderland. If all fiction is make-believe, then writers should not deny themselves great metaphors like ghosts and angels and devils." For Joe Hill, that's the stuff home is made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil's Due | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...long as people play football, there will be football-related injuries. We should do what we reasonably can to keep players safe, but life is full of risks, and if you live in fear of them or try to mitigate them out of existence, you take the joy out of living--or, in this case, the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...classroom and clinical training in preventing and treating diseases. A 2001 study in the British Medical Journal found that in 34,407 treatments by 1,848 professional acupuncturists, there were zero instances of transmission of hepatitis or any other disease. Performed by a licensed professional, acupuncture is a safe method of treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...under the nodding gaze of needy junkies. Prisons warehoused the violent and nonviolent with little regard for who could be rehabilitated. It made for award-winning drama, but it also was a reminder that in every American city, neighborhoods remain where violence still reigns and it simply isn't safe to walk around. And national crime statistics mean nothing to the millions of people who live there. (See the top 10 TV series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind America's Falling Crime Rate | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...worrying skating officials and athletes alike: that the scoring system may be sucking out the drive and inspiration for innovating and evolving the sport that jumps like the quad represent. The stricter scrutiny that the system places on the execution of elements is biasing skaters to play it safe and skate programs that are constructed - move for move, from fingertip to toe point - with an almost passionless precision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lysacek's Gold: Are Olympic Skaters Playing It Too Safe? | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

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