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...hard to grasp the impact diarrhea has on people's lives across Africa and Asia. The disease kills more children than either malaria or AIDS, stunts growth and forces millions--adults and children alike--to spend weeks at a time off work or school, which hits both a country's economy and its citizens' chances of a better future. In countless villages like Sogola, where people have long drawn water from unreliable wells, diarrhea kills so many that there is a general sense of resignation, as if watching children die is simply one of life's inevitable tragedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Miracle Mineral | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...recent episode, seeing the Glee kids' insensitivity to the challenges faced by their disabled friend, Mr. Schuester ordered all of them to spend three hours a day in a wheelchair and learn for themselves what it was like to walk in their friend's shoes--or roll in his chair. A second subplot explored the love and tension between a flamboyantly gay kid and his devoted, conflicted dad. A third forced us to revisit the judgment we'd reached about the show's most gleefully conniving character, cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, who has all the charm and subtlety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gospel of Glee: Is It Anti-Christian? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

Nevertheless, Toyota, which has seen its sales in the U.S. fall 28%, was planning to spend more than $1 billion on advertising, incentives and "incremental" production, starting in the fourth quarter. "You can't save your way through a recession; you've got to sell," Carter told reporters recently. The question now is whether consumers will still want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toyota's Big Recall Unlikely to Quiet Critics | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...Left Washington to spend her junior year studying abroad as part of a yearlong course with University for Foreigners Perugia in Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amanda Knox, Convicted of Murder in Italy | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...world has spent the past six months wondering how - and with whom - Silvio Berlusconi spends his Saturday nights. But the combative, scandal-plagued Prime Minister of Italy would prefer to talk about his mornings instead. "Do you know how I've been forced to spend my Saturday mornings since I entered politics?" Berlusconi once declared to business leaders in Rome. "With my lawyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After a Court Ruling, Berlusconi's Legal Woes Resume | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

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