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As a young girl, Liz Jones knew there was something wrong with her legs. Every evening, she would experience a "creepy, crawly" sensation that persisted throughout the night. Her legs would jerk involuntarily, making it impossible to fall asleep. She was six when her mother first took her to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restless Legs Get Respect | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

The truth is, each one is a little different. I got my first feel for explosions in Afghanistan in December of 2001, when I was reporting on the siege of Tora Bora. A volley of mortars fell on a front-line position I visited one day. The fear stands out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bomb Blasts I Have Known | 7/18/2007 | See Source »

The worst sensation comes, of course, when the blast is nearest. In December, I was in Ramadi. After a short foot patrol with Marines, I walked back into the tiny base nestled on a bad street in the city. Minutes after I entered, a huge mortar slammed into the doorway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bomb Blasts I Have Known | 7/18/2007 | See Source »

Rick Schweikert, program director of the HERS Foundation, a nonprofit organization that educates women about hysterectomy, says he would like to see the surgery go the way of tonsillectomy-effectively phasing it out. HERS compares the procedure to castration and says its many adverse health effects far outweigh any benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Hysterectomies Too Common? | 7/17/2007 | See Source »

Everything about Shinya Yamanaka's discovery was right-except for the timing. The 44-year-old Kyoto University stem-cell researcher had found a way to genetically reprogram an ordinary mouse skin cell to revert to the virtual equivalent of its embryonic state, in which it has the potential to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahead of the Curve | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

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