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...never absolutely exclude a military option. But at this moment, diplomacy is the only realistically useful means to consider. We already have Iraq to worry about. What do you say to those who worry that Berlusconi's defeat means Italian politics will never again be as entertaining? [Big smile.] Tell them I'm sorry, Mr. Prodi is indeed much more boring than Mr. Berlusconi. I can't offer them any hope for such entertainment. But entertaining didn't get us very...
Finding the right doctor is important: but so is choosing the right hospital. There are all kinds of guides that can tell you what percentage of heart-attack patients were prescribed beta blockers upon arrival or sell you a report about your particular doctor. The problem is that it takes a doctorate in statistics to sort out the data. "The world's best orthopedic surgeon will be sent everyone's disaster cases," says Wachter. "He may be spectacular and still have worse outcomes than the crummy surgeon across the street who has better outcomes because he gets the slam dunks...
...knees and end-stage circulatory disease, which have left her with two useless legs that are red, swollen and infected. Now her shoulder has started to hurt. She can't raise her arm to comb her hair. Five or six other things are wrong with her--she tells me about each. Some we can help; most we can't. I tell her as much...
...citizen of a country that signed the Kyoto treaty, I read TIME's cover headline urging me to be worried, and I thought, Don't tell me. Tell your President! Send a copy of your magazine to Bush on behalf of us Europeans. He is not listening to us. Maybe he has an ear for you, and will finally urge the U.S. Congress to ratify the treaty. Pieter Walraven Aix-en-Provence, France...
...longa, vita brevis,”—life is short, art long—runs the ancient proverb. Ask artist Peter Smuts, whose show “The Human Pixel Project” is currently showing at Mather’s Three Columns Gallery, and he might tell you that life is pixelated, and art even more so.Smuts has assembled eight color-themed panels out of hundreds of two-inch square tiles. Each tile, however, is a work of art in its own right. Smuts started the project by sending out blank tiles to artists around the country...