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...Fred Couples only uses balls with ones and threes on them. Golfers may be the most superstitious of all pro athletes, but no good-luck charm has swept the tour like a little ornament called the QLink. A lightweight pendant worn as a necklace, it supposedly helps the body ward off electromagnetic fields and increases mental stamina. Clarus Products International has sold more than 200,000 of the pendants since 1999 and claims that 300 pros are now wearing them. The company cites scientists who tout the pendant's effects and offers stats showing that PGA tour players are more...
...next year. A U.N. report last month described the living conditions of Central Europe's Roma as "closer to those in sub-Saharan Africa than to Europe," singling out Slovakia as the country with the highest rates of unemployment (64%) and social exclusion among Roma. Representatives of four maternity wards cited in the CRR report and contacted by Time said the allegations were untrue and biased. "It's a load of nonsense," says Stefan Pitko, head of a maternity ward in Spisska Nova Ves, eastern Slovakia. "The Roma in this district make up 14% of the population yet account...
...practices during the exam period. While most of the college hockey world plays a full schedule in January—Brown (9-8-2, 7-5-1) has played four times since Harvard last took the ice—Harvard has had to rely on player-run practices to ward off the rust...
UZBEKISTAN The government has pledged support for a U.S. war. As a host to U.S. forces engaged in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan has enjoyed warming relations with the U.S.-which help secure its independence from Moscow, and ward off mounting attacks by Islamic radicals...
...Hassan stalks through the cancer ward of the Basra hospital where several children lie hooked up to intravenous drips. She shows hideous photographs of damaged children, many of them little more than lumps of meat. Those did not make it, but there are plenty that would survive if only they had some medication. But these are poor people and cannot afford medicines. Cancer drugs, for instance, fall under the dual use category and are listed under UN sanctions. So, although medical services are highly subsidized in Iraq, these children can have no treatment. Leukemia patients are given a blood transfusion...