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Your report on Haiti was shocking, but for the wrong reason: the double-page image of a dead Haitian man who had been shot in the street. I wonder, was it really necessary, after all the heartache and destruction in Haiti, to add to the pain of this man's family and friends by publishing such a clearly identifiable picture? Phil Jackson, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, ENGLAND...
...that peace can prevail in the land of peace." My father is lecturing at Cairo University. In our apartment we tack up posters bought in the bazaar: drawings of a somber Sadat, wreathed by doves. Our Sadat posters last longer than Sadat does: two years later, he's dead, shot by extremists angered at his peace talks with Israel...
...sent it to a research lab without her permission. Lacks died a few months later, but the sample lived on--and on and on. The strain, dubbed HeLa, was the first human tissue to be successfully kept alive as a culture. Since her death, Lacks' cells have been shot into space, infected with tuberculosis and zapped with radiation to test the effects of a nuclear bomb. HeLa helped develop the polio vaccine and drugs for everything from Parkinson's to AIDS. But Lacks' children, many of them too poor to afford medical care, were never consulted about or even thanked...
...Puritan streak that is as old as Plymouth Rock: Seek thou not the Folly of Celebrity, but apply thyself with Humility to thy Industry! Well, that's one strain of American values. But there are other American ideas that reality TV taps into: That everybody should have a shot. That sometimes being real is better than being polite. That no matter where you started out, you can hit it big, get lucky and reinvent yourself. In her own way, Jwoww is as American a character as the nobody Jay Gatsby heading east and changing his name. (See TIME...
...couple of good possessions, and you could feel that we were starting to come back, and they just hit two big shots,” Curry said. “That was kind of the theme of the night—every time we got it back close, they would hit a huge shot, so give credit to them...