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...This kind of fear-mongering reaches new heights in Murkoff's newest release. To say this book is exhaustive would be an understatement. It touches on everything from laser eye surgery (avoid it if you're even thinking about making a baby) to coloring your hair (highlights are safer than permanent dye; good idea to consult with your stylist on a "pre-pregnancy hair color plan"). The second half of the book explores challenges to fertility, and it's here that readers will find fewer silly what-ifs and more sage advice. The book follows the same Q&A format...
...eastern border has passed and that troops should be moved to the west, where both Pakistani and Afghan Taliban have set up training camps. To many Pakistanis, that message is suspect. The Americans have too long a history of pursuing their own interests in the region, they say. The rapid U.S. withdrawal at the end of the Soviet war in Afghanistan left Pakistan in chaos. America's long support for former President Pervez Musharraf's military rule alienated Pakistanis even further. Now it is commonly accepted that every political move in the country conceals an American motive, a belief shared...
...That resentment is fueled by a belief that Pakistan is suffering for Washington's failures. Zardari may say that the war on terrorism is as much Pakistan's as it is the U.S.'s, but that message has yet to take root. The growing militancy in Pakistan's tribal areas "is the price we are paying now for supporting the American war on terror," says Ahsan Iqbal, information secretary for the opposition party Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz). "If we stopped supporting the American war [in Afghanistan], we would have peace tomorrow." Iqbal dismisses recent accounts in the Western press...
...Germany and - more worryingly - up to 20 million illegal weapons. Germany tightened its gun-control laws in 2002, after a school shooting in the central town of Erfurt left 18 dead. But after the Winnenden shooting earlier this year, campaigners lobbied the government for even tougher legislation, which, they say, could prevent further massacres. (See pictures of the Virginia Tech tragedy...
...relatives of those killed in Winnenden say the proposed measures don't go far enough. They are calling for tougher controls, including a ban on high-caliber firearms and on violent computer games and videos. "The new measures are just cosmetic because the government is under public pressure to do something to tighten gun laws before the election in September," Hardy Schober, chair of the Winnenden Action Group and father of 15-year-old Jana, who died in the shooting, tells TIME. "We want high-caliber weapons to be banned, and handguns should only be stored under supervision...