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...coherent national policy to encourage as many as possible of the world's smartest people to become Americans, the better their chance of forestalling economic decline." Are you really trying to promote an even greater brain drain from the developing world? I refuse to believe it. I'm sure you don't mean "Long live America - and to hell with the Third World." Alaisdair Raynham, TRURO, ENGLAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Edge | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

Dentistry is among the services most in demand. "I've had patients come in and say, 'I want to make sure I use all my insurance benefits before the end of the year," says Woody Oakes, a dentist in New Albany, Indiana, and editor of The Profitable Dentist magazine. "Ireland, the U.K., Brazil - dentists everywhere are telling me the same thing." Along with their smiles, employees are also rushing to look after their sight: Specsavers, a U.K. eyeglasses retailer with 12,000 corporate clients, saw year-on-year growth of 40% in 2008, despite the downturn. Corporate insurance provider CIGNA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Benefits Rush | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...this time, Kandinsky was on his own, artistically. The train of followers that he predicted in his book failed to materialise. And that new age he had been so sure of never did dawn. But after his death in 1944, his spirit lived on in the postwar design explosion that sprayed color onto a grey and battered world. And today, his work perfectly illustrates progress toward an ideal - a rarity in a world consumed with art for art's sake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kandinsky: A Bright Future, Once | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...knew was that this is clearly not a decision I should be making for another human being. What school he attends, what he eats, which bouncy seat he should bounce in - sure. Whether to alter your genitals for aesthetic reasons is a question meant for your mid-20s at Burning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein Contemplates Circumcision (For His Son) | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...weeks, I'm going to buy some bagels, call a mohel who is also a pediatric surgeon and believes in local anesthetic, and do something that I'm pretty sure is wrong. I have a horrible feeling that all of parenthood is like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein Contemplates Circumcision (For His Son) | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

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