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...midnight stroke at your New Year's Eve party, between champagne swigs and kisses, you might have glanced at the TV image of Times Square: a million people celebrating in a neon-illuminated swirl of confetti, as if God had sent a pretty blizzard right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Very Confetti New Year's | 1/2/2007 | See Source »

...tackling increasingly complex diseases using new tools-such as genomics, proteomics and nanotechnology-that will take years to bear fruit," says PhRMA Senior Vice President Ken Johnson, adding that "more than 2,000 new medicines are in development, including 646 medicines for cancer, 146 for heart disease and stroke, 77 for AIDS, and 56 for diabetes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Little Bang for the Buck in Drug Research? | 12/27/2006 | See Source »

...know people (I'm married to one) who cherish Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas as the finest holiday jazz album. But I'll take this one, from Montreal's gift to coolness. In 1993, the pianist suffered a stroke that severely restricted his left side. But, as this buoyant set shows, he could still outplay the competition with one hand tied behind his back. "Christmas Waltz" is the one you'll be hitting the replay button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 12 CDs of Christmas | 12/22/2006 | See Source »

...made PB&Js for Peter’s lunch, but he used the crunchy peanut butter. One would think that after thirteen years, DA would know that Peter is extremely allergic to peanuts. Ever since the two of us were accepted into Harvard—Peter by a stroke of dumb luck and DA by the broad strokes of lies that he used to paint his application—our relationship has grown worse and worse. It has descended into us trying to sneak subtle insults into the text of this very column. DA who eats his boogers and Peter...

Author: By Peter J. Martinez and David A. Wallach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Taint Love If It Don’t Hurt | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...life expectancy at birth, as an African American girl, was less than 40. But she lived in the age of invention, of penicillin, vaccines, x-rays, cat scans, lived in the century when life expectancy doubled. She was hardly ever sick, her grandchildren said, until a stroke two years ago left her unable to tell her stories anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living to 116 | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

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