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More surprising was the fact that all three acupuncture services, including the sham version with toothpicks, had about the same effect on pain reduction. It's worth remembering that the toothpicks were used at the same points involved in the standard acupuncture treatment - that is, practitioners were not pricking their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Acupuncture for Bad Backs: Even Sham Therapy Works | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

With violence and anti-American sentiment on the rise, it's plain to see that military operations in Afghanistan are not going well. But if Defense Secretary Robert Gates is right, three-star Army Lieut. General Stan McChrystal is just the guy to turn things around. On May 11, Gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stan McChrystal: The New U.S. Commander in Afghanistan | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

Any surprises? TIME made Health Minister Barbara Hogan one of our 100 most influential people two weeks ago. In one of the more surprising moves, Hogan has been dropped from the health portfolio and moved to the less impressive public enterprises portfolio. As an AIDS activist in the country with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zuma's First Moves as South African President | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

The attraction of the unidentified woman in the photos to Cutié isn't surprising, either. Cutié's last name is pronounced koo-tee-ay, but that hasn't stopped people from calling the handsome, telegenic priest "Father Cutie" - the kind of hunk-in-a-collar whom smitten Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Father Cutié Scandal: Sex and the Single Priest | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

Given that national angst, it's less surprising that conservative tycoon Ricardo Martinelli upset Panama's powerful ruling party on Sunday to win the presidency in a landslide. Martinelli, 57, is a U.S.-educated free-marketeer, a millionaire whose business empire includes supermarkets, banks and agricultural firms. Just as important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama's New President: A Boost for Business | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

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