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...fiercely nationalist tradition. In the Soviet era, the Ukraine was recognized as the cradle of the Union's soccer talent, regularly supplying a majority of the national team's players. But despite its tradition of representing Ukrainian pride (particularly against Russian teams during the Soviet era), the accepted wisdom in independent Ukraine is that soccer success requires buying the best talent available - and given the fact that far wealthier clubs in Western Europe are going to take the cream of the world's soccer talent, clubs in the Ukraine and Russia - and France and Belgium - who can't afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Soccer Means to the World | 7/21/2004 | See Source »

...caesareans when a fetal-heart monitor indicates even minor signs of trouble. Today more than one-quarter of U.S. births are by C-section (up from 5% in 1970), though fear of malpractice suits is just one factor in the trend. Meanwhile, medical research has been challenging the conventional wisdom that birth trauma was the principal culprit in cerebral palsy. "There seems to be no scientific question that most of that injury [cerebral palsy] occurs prenatally and is not related to the delivery," says Dr. H. David Bruton, whose partner was a defendant in a lawsuit argued by Edwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trial Lawyer: Court and Spark: Edwards' Legal Career | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

...still trying to get over. She has a lot of catching up to do. Oh, and she's a newspaper columnist--not the most original plot device, but, hey, sometimes the formula works. The Big Love is a perfect sugary confection, with a surprising center of wistful wisdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: If You Read Only 10 Trashy Novels This Summer | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

...fiercely nationalist tradition. In the Soviet era, the Ukraine was recognized as the cradle of the Union's soccer talent, regularly supplying a majority of the national team's players. But despite its tradition of representing Ukrainian pride (particularly against Russian teams during the Soviet era), the accepted wisdom in independent Ukraine is that soccer success requires buying the best talent available - and given the fact that far wealthier clubs in Western Europe are going to take the cream of the world's soccer talent, clubs in the Ukraine and Russia - and France and Belgium - who can't afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer's New Wars | 7/15/2004 | See Source »

...years later on That's All Right and then some - Rocket 88 was brash and it was sexy; it took elements of the blues, hammered them with rhythm and attitude and electric guitar, and reimagined black music into something new. If the blues seemed to give voice to old wisdom, this new music seemed full of youthful notions. If the blues was about squeezing cathartic joy out of the bad times, this new music was about letting the good times roll. If the blues was about earthly troubles, the rock that Turner's crew created seemed to shout that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elvis Rocks. But He's Not the First | 7/6/2004 | See Source »

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