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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hospital ward in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, Fatmata Conteh, 26, lay on a bed, having just given birth to her second child. She had started bleeding from a tear in her cervix, the blood forming a pool on the floor below. Two doctors ran in and stitched her up, relatives found blood supplies, and nurses struggled to connect a generator to the oxygen tank. One nurse jammed an intravenous needle into Conteh's arm, while another hooked a bag of blood to a rusted stand, and a third slapped an oxygen mask over her face. In the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death in Birth | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...this way serve to enforce the social norms that are necessary for any group to exist. And, of course, gossiping with someone signifies that they are your confidante or friend - we do not gossip with our enemies. Gossip thus bonds people together - even though in doing so it may tear others apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: How to Combat Gossip | 9/15/2008 | See Source »

RECONSTRUCTIVE KNEE SURGERY About 80,000 ACLs tear annually. Girls are up to eight times as likely to suffer the injury, which sidelined Tiger Woods in June

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: Sports Medicine | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...England patriots fans will attest, the scariest letters in sports are ACL--as in an anterior cruciate ligament tear, probably the knee injury that ended quarterback Tom Brady's season on Sept. 7. But thanks to the marvels of modern sports medicine, the Pats' superstar should be dissecting defenses again in 2009. Ever since surgeon Frank Jobe revolutionized baseball in the 1970s with the pioneering elbow-repair technique now known as Tommy John surgery, doctors have been developing innovative ways to treat sports injuries. From managing concussions (some 300,000 annually in the U.S.; football players and female athletes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: Sports Medicine | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

That boyish awe, which even his most detestable characters possess, comes out increasingly as earnestness, from the tear-jerking Extras finale to the touching moments in Ghost Town. In his stand-up, he starts with fat jokes, moves on to aids and then, when you're expecting rape for the comedy trifecta, spends an hour deconstructing fairy tales. "For a cynic and a misanthrope and the generally unpleasant persona that he projects, he's actually very sentimental," says David Koepp, who co-wrote and directed Ghost Town. "Which is usually the case with comics, but they're not always good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Renaissance Man: Ricky Gervais | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

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