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...Look that up in the dictionary and you'll see a picture of the cast of Scrubs that - maybe - will include Zach Braff ... depending on what day it is. As the ABC show (formerly an NBC show) completes its eighth and possibly final season May 6, Braff, who plays Dr. John (J.D.) Dorian on the series, talked to TIME about what it is about Scrubs that got it saved after being dropped by one network and how his future plans will intersect with the show's still-undetermined future...
...Dr. Richard Besser isn't one for easing into a new job. Before becoming the acting director-general of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the trained pediatrician was the head of the CDC's emergency response office, a position he took in 2005, hours before Hurricane Katrina hit. Now, just a few months after being named the CDC's interim head - in lieu of a political appointment from President Barack Obama - Besser has been thrust into the role of the government's public health commander-in-chief, guiding the agency through what could be the first...
...Tamils are clearly not going to be given autonomy over their homeland. But they must be given equal political rights and at least the majority of the say in what goes on where they live. Dr. Amartya Sen has stated that the Sri Lankan government long ago forsook the “richness of plurality” and pushed Tamils to the peripheries of power. They must rediscover that richness and bring them back into the fold. Tamils must be granted the immediate ability to not only non-violently control affairs where they live, but also to have a voice...
...this point, is there anything we don't know about the biology of sex? Never before has a populace had as much access to information about how their bodies operate. Yet, Dr. Sharon Moalem, a Ph.D. in human physiology, believes that we deserve a one-stop primer on what goes where and why. There's a lot of science behind the book's deceptively simple title. ("See TIME's 100 Most Influential People of the Year...
...interview with TIME, Dr. Miguel Angel Lezana, director of Mexico's National Epidemiological Center, rejects the criticism. "When you're dealing with a completely new germ, it tasks any health system's early-response capacity," says Lezana. "But it's difficult for me to imagine how a country could have acted more rapidly than Mexico did in this case...