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...with the best shot at unseating the fiery incumbent in Iran's Presidential elections isn't the youthful or charismatic candidate one might expect. Though he served as Iran's Prime Minister during the 1980s, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the pragmatic reformist who has emerged as Ahmadinejad's most serious challenger, is stepping back into the political spotlight after what the Iranian media has dubbed "20 years of silence." Mousavi's low profile may work to his benefit. Iranians seeking an alternative to Ahmadinejad's truculence have latched onto Mousavi with little concern, it seems, over the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Challenger: Mir-Hossein Mousavi | 6/12/2009 | See Source »

...Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, he asserted that the effort that had gone into creating a new atmosphere of peace, reconciliation and resolution in and around Indian-administered-Kashmir "seems at a real risk of going waste unless immediate retrieval is made." Ostensibly in an acknowledgement of the situation being serious enough, Indian home (interior) minister P Chidambaram has scheduled a visit to Srinagar later during this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Violent Crime Resurrects Kashmir's Call for Freedom | 6/10/2009 | See Source »

...cheaper - has resulted in increased ownership by new computer users or by people with less education in using the technology, who may be more prone to accidents and misuse. Whatever the root cause of the rise in injuries, it bears noting that the study data accounted only for injuries serious enough to require a visit to an emergency room. There may be many more injuries that were not reported to health officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Computer Hazard: Dropping One on Your Foot | 6/9/2009 | See Source »

...them can be pried out of Sumerian documents 5,000 years old. The history of their treatment is about as bizarre and useless a medical menagerie as you could wish for. (Two words: beaver testes.) It's only in the past 40 years that they've have become a serious topic for mainstream medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Personal and Cultural History of Migraines | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...believe every problem has a simple solution, and that solution is usually to do nothing. So I'm fully supporting Vote No on Everything, an organization started by Los Angeles doctor Reed Levine. You can tell this is a serious effort because the website sells T shirts. Levine realized the initiative system was faulty right after he voted for a $10 billion high-speed train and then wondered if $10 billion was a bargain or a rip-off for a high-speed train. His plan appeals to me, since if we vote against everything, our elected officials will be forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein on California's State of Insanity | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

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