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Like just about every one of my contemporaries, I still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when John F. Kennedy was shot. It's so vivid, it's almost like watching a movie: I was home sick from fifth grade, lying on the couch in the living room. My mother had a talk-radio station playing. Suddenly a newscaster broke in with the news that shots had been fired in Dallas and that the President had been rushed to a hospital. Then a few minutes later came these precise words, spoken in just the tone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: The Flavor Of Memories | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...Sick and tired of “Dick in a Box”? Bared your soul on desperate@... uh, “Bored@Lamont?” Don’t want to be that guy who’s always facebooking in the library? Try FM’s guide to eProcrastination...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 WEBSITES | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...satirical knives come thick and fast: Blair's shock at the squalor of the state-run hospital he has to attend when he gets sick; the steely disdain of the PM's wife Cherie (played by Phoebe Nicholl) for the Browns, who are moving into No. 10 Downing; the alacrity with which the U.S. drops Blair by agreeing to a U.N resolution to set up a special tribunal for aggressors in Iraq in order to prove its new enlightened foreign policy credentials. "We're going to say some unpleasant things about you," the U.S. ambassador in London tells Blair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tony Blair on Trial for Iraq? | 1/17/2007 | See Source »

...leading expert in disability rights law, who like many critics feels intense sympathy for these parents. "Many things that were done under a theory of benevolence were later seen as wrongheaded violations of human rights. " Medicine's role is to relieve pain and improve function, but Ashley was not sick, and the treatment was untested; do we really want to start bending the rules in the case of the disabled just for the promise of some benefit in the future, advocates ask? That's not healing, it's gambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pillow Angel Ethics, Part 2 | 1/9/2007 | See Source »

...these solutions still aren't reaching the vast proportion of Africans in need. Hard as it is for us to imagine, Africa's households simply can't afford even $10 for a net, or a dollar for medicines when a child falls sick. Nor can African governments carry these costs on meager budgets or take extra vital steps to train local health workers and ensure that every village has reliable access to effective medicines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The $10 Solution | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

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