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...Tepe Zargaran that he will never be able to unravel, a shout rings out from the other side of the excavation site. Ahmad Basir, a grinning 19-year-old, holds aloft a clay urn the length of his forearm. It took Basir several hours of painstaking work with a scalpel to free the artifact from the earth where it had lain. Before the archaeologists came, he explains, looters would simply hack away at a site with axes and shovels until they found statues or gold jewelry. "We didn't care about pots," he says. "We would just throw them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: A Treasure Trove for Archaeologists | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...with an expose entitled “Concentration Camps for Dogs,” detailing the gruesome trade of dog dealers who plied impounded pets to animal testing laboratories. And, though that trade has since been regulated, 70,000 dogs still go unwillingly under the vivisectionist’s scalpel in America every year, some of them former pets...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: The Dog Delusion | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...secure classified U.S. intelligence material held by the British government, which the lawyers claimed would prove that evidence against their client had been obtained under torture. His legal team allege that Mohamed's captors in Morocco beat him, deprived him of sleep and slashed his genitals with a scalpel; in Kabul, his lawyers say that Mohamed was subjected to beatings and noise torture. "It is still difficult for me to believe that I was abducted, hauled from one country to the next, and tortured in medieval ways - all orchestrated by the United States government," said Mohamed in his statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surviving Guantánamo: A Prisoner's Tale | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...doctor makes an incision in a man's scrotal sac and, deftly wielding his scalpel, quickly removes both testicles. In the Czech Republic, that simple operation is the punishment for male sex offenders. But to the Council of Europe, the region's leading human-rights body, the procedure is "invasive, irreversible and mutilating." In a report issued last week, the council called the punishment "degrading" and demanded it be scrapped immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unkindest Cut: A Czech Solution for Sex Offenders | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...sign of illness. The Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery paper makes the point that most of those who have realistic expectations about what cosmetic procedures can accomplish are happy with the results. They know they won't look like a supermodel even if the best surgeon is wielding the scalpel. Rivers says that everyone can "be beautiful," which just isn't true, at least not on the surface. The beautiful wouldn't look beautiful unless they looked better than the rest of us. But I do agree with Rivers about one point: when big-nosed women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joan Rivers' Cure: Will Plastic Surgery Make You Happier? | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

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