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...think anybody who has been through a shock like that, you know how you feel. Your body is just really numb. My sister kind of came in and took over. By now, the word was trickling out, and it was just chaos in the church. I have to tell you, it looked a lot like Sex and the City, when Big wouldn't marry Carrie. My people were rallying for me, and my sister said things in the church she shouldn't have said. I'm sure bad words. She was yelling at him. I think I threw my ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Happens When You Get Left at the Altar | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...primary concern, says Rosen, is the tragedy of a false promise. "You don't want to take a population and promise them something - tell them it's O.K. to wait until you're 40," he says. At 40, the transplant may not work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hope to Prolong Fertility: Ovarian Transplants | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...porn use in places where people agree with statements like “AIDS might be God’s punishment for immoral sexual behavior.” What do you think explains this?BGE: On a zip code level, most of the key results continue to hold. That tells me that this isn’t as likely to be a minority fighting against a majority that is suppressing their consumption of adult entertainment. It seems to imply that people in conservative places –– that the conservative people in conservative places...

Author: By Luis Urbina, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions with Benjamin G. Edelman '02 | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

Three years ago, on a desperately cold day in the Himalayan winter of 2006, Tashi and his two friends reached Lhasa after a long trek from their nomadic settlement in Tibet's Ambdo province. From there, they telephoned their families to tell them they were going across the border, to Dharamsala in India, to see the Dalai Lama and get an education. The families were worried - in addition to the risk of being caught fleeing Tibet, the boys faced an even more arduous, monthlong trek through innumerable snow-covered passes. Each was barely out of his teens and had paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tibetan Exiles: A Generation in Peril | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...deep sense of alienation from Indian society has developed among young Tibetans. "Many Indians see Tibetans as parasites," says Jigme. "They look down on us. I tell such people that Tibetan forces fought alongside Indians in the 1971 war [against Pakistan] in Kargil. They are present on the Siachen glacier [facing off against the Pakistani military.]" Jigme says he feels a sense of pride in the fact that his grandfather worked with a secret military force under the Indian government, but adds, "I still feel like we are people of nowhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tibetan Exiles: A Generation in Peril | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

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