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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...remember the first time you heard it? No. My memory's shot. I'm in Cannes, France, for a conference; I left dinner last night, got home, I turned on CNN and there it was - him being rushed to the hospital. I didn't go to bed the whole night. I just kept watching CNN. So it's a big, big, big, big loss for the world. And I'd like to make this comment: I've seen too many people talking about Michael like they knew exactly what he did. Let's celebrate his genius, his musicality, his gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spike Lee Remembers Michael Jackson | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

...science behind the concept. "There's conflicting evidence as to the extent to which HLA plays a role in what we call mate choice," says Peter Donnelly, director of Oxford's Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics. But GenePartner is betting that the lovelorn will give it a shot. For now, for $99, you can order a kit, swab your cheek, mail it to Switzerland and get your GenePartner ID. You can then be matched with anybody in the GenePartner database. Eventually, you'll be able to take your ID with you from dating site to dating site. Or post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Genetics Help You Find Love? | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

...meted out by the state onto foreign powers and the protesters themselves. State television aired a program in which witnesses and experts all agreed that Neda Agha-Soltan - the 27-year-old bystander whose death was captured on YouTube, sparking sympathy worldwide and turning Neda into a martyr - was shot by foreign agents in order to intensify people's rage. State television also broadcast another program mourning the purported deaths of eight Basijis killed by bullet wounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Which State Security Branch Rules Tehran's Streets? | 6/28/2009 | See Source »

...known what measures the emergency workers took to save Jackson, but if they had determined that he suffered from cardiac arrest triggered by an overdose of narcotics, they would have likely used a shot of naloxone, a drug that counteracts opioid overdose, to get the brain back online and the heart beating again, says Connie Meyer, an EMS captain in Johnson County, Kans. In cases where it's not clear whether narcotics are involved - cardiac arrest may be caused by a wide range of factors, including stress - some EMTs will use epinephrine, a shot of adrenaline that jump-starts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Drugs Kill Michael Jackson? | 6/27/2009 | See Source »

...postwar boom with a massive program of public infrastructure - the nation's finest public college system, the freeway system and the state aqueduct that carries water from the well-watered north to the parched south. When Ronald Reagan was governor, he actually raised taxes. Then Proposition 13 shot the tires out of Pat Brown's liberal state. Liberal legislative leaders such as Willie Brown and John Burton jerry-rigged repairs and kept the damaged vehicle running for 30 years. Now Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger says there is no choice but to complete the demolition by slashing essential services. (TIME's Joel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy of Proposition 13 | 6/27/2009 | See Source »

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