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...pretty rare" for individuals to feign amnesia, and that such a decision was usually born of financial incentive, which Darwin does not appear to have. Some members of the rescue effort, however, harbored suspicions about Darwin's disappearance when he turned up missing, said David Young, a ward council member in Seaton, near where Darwin lived. Young said while boats were combing the shores looking for the missing man, local fishermen said the location where Darwin's kayak washed ashore defied tidal patterns. The turbulent sea had also been unusually placid that day. "It didn't add up," Young says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Returned From the Sea | 12/4/2007 | See Source »

...brick homes, the community of 5,000 boasts an 11th century Anglican church and a grass-banked canal. Along the winding High Street, locals walk their dogs and motorists yield and wave. And quaint charm isn't the whole story. "It's a very modern, forward-thinking place," says ward council member James Kelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Suicide Capital of England | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

...disease was, much less how to treat it. But as chief of medicine at San Francisco's General Hospital, infectious-diseases expert Merle Sande recognized the impending epidemic and began putting together a plan for tackling the disease. By 1983 he had successfully lobbied for a dedicated hospital ward for AIDS patients. He also helped develop the "San Francisco model" of treatment, which emphasized infection control and research financing, becoming a blueprint for clinics nationwide. He was 68 and had multiple myeloma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...used to be difficult to know who would and who would not be its victims, cancer is easier to predict these days. Its causes are actually very well understood, and many types of the disease are preventable - which helps to explain why braggadocio isn't heard in the oncology ward, a place full of regret. Picture yourself lying in one as your dumbstruck spouse and children hover over the bed. Are you really going to tell them you're glad that you ate the wrong foods, never set foot on a treadmill and never stopped smoking? That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Save Yourself | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...month will not be criminally charged, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office said Tuesday. The 10-year-old boy had admitted to police that he had started the fire accidentally while playing with matches Oct. 21. Had he been charged with arson, he could have been made a ward of the state under California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Charges for 10-Year Old in Wildfire | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

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