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Did you write notes to people? I had a dry-erase board I'd take around but I didn't use it much. It made me avoid social interactions more than I already do. I just turned into a shut-in who dreaded going grocery shopping.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joanna Newsom | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

In fact, as Dr. Richard Besser, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), pointed out just a few hours later, there's no real risk for a healthy person in the U.S. to ride mass transit - not with the outbreak as small as it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top 5 Swine Flu Don'ts | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

Even more importantly, however, her case has also gotten many people across France reexamining their attitudes toward the assisted suicides of terminal patients that are legal in Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands. France's standing law was written in 2005, after a mother and doctor provoked the death of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Sets French Euthanasia Debate | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

Sebire's goal remains fixed: circumvent the 2005 law passed following a controversial mercy killing by a mother and doctor of a tetrapalegic, blind, and virtually shut-in patient who made his desire to die clear. In crafting that legislation, French lawmakers sought to draw a fine line between allowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making a Case for Euthanasia | 3/15/2008 | See Source »

To foodophiles, the dining hall broccoli and cheese chicken breast is a bewildering beast. Why would you do that to a poor cafeteria chicken breast that’s probably a mutant anyway? Thankfully, a beautiful brunch is neither far nor expensive. We become so shut-in at Harvard that...

Author: By Elsa S. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Tasty World Outside Harvard Square | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

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