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Each study participant was given an identically labeled bleach bottle, but only half of the bottles actually contained bleach. (Although patients, or at least their parents, could easily distinguish whether they were in the bleach group or the placebo group by smelling the contents of their bottle, they were instructed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Baths with Bleach Help Kids' Eczema | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

Ranged against this ruthless foe are the bumbling and sometimes brutal Thai security forces. McCargo is scathing about them. The army subcontracts much of the fighting to ill-disciplined paramilitaries, he writes, keeping its best-trained troops close to Bangkok to stymie or stage coups d'état. The police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of a Forgotten Conflict | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

5 | Kabul Women's Rights Under Siege Shouting slogans like "You are a dog, not a Shi'ite woman!" a group of nearly 1,000 Afghan men and women surrounded protesters at a rally against the Shi'ite personal status law. Human-rights groups say the controversial legislation, approved in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

This is how Goldblum came, five years ago, to start the Diaper Bank (a name, she notes, that sounds less comical--and is easier to raise funds for--than the Toilet Paper Bank). These days, she gives away 200,000 diapers a month in Connecticut, mostly to public-housing authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting a Diaper Bank | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

The antisnipping crusaders argue that the ancient Greeks rejected this violent tribal custom of the Jews and Muslims; hardly anyone practices it anymore besides those groups and Americans. They argue that the Jews created it as a way either to exclude women from their club or to ritualize the sacrifice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein Contemplates Circumcision (For His Son) | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

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