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I’m a cyborg and I love it
Janet Lafler
My portable insulin pump never strays from my side, but I feel more human with the technology than without it.
They taste like nuts, right?
Carina Chocano
Chef reveals that the Dubyas are loco for bull balls; Laura Bush's good head transferred to better bod; and is the prez-elect's niece bird-doggin' Prince Willam?
Will Thompson, Bush clash over human embryo research?
Arthur Allen
The HHS nominee supports it, but right-to-lifers want it stopped.
“The Century of the Gene” by Evelyn Fox Keller
Carolyn McConnell
A new book argues that there may be no such thing as a gene.
“Suffering Sappho!”
Jay Blotcher
Wonder Woman has a new artist -- a gay kid who grew up in the projects.
Molly Ivins
David Rubien
Balancing humor and passion, the proudly partisan Texas pundit elevates a profession dominated by mediocrity and received ideas.
Robert Downey Jr. and “VIP syndrome”
Maura Kelly
Caregivers cutting corners for a famous client may be just one of the problems bedeviling the respected actor -- who could face hard time.
Sick on the beach
David Vernon
When you have no vacation days left, it's time to kill off beloved members of your virtual family.
Life under the hole in the sky
Dawn MacKeen
For the people of southern Chile, ozone depletion isn't a political issue -- it's a nightmarish reality. A report from the globe's ecological future.
America’s sick healthcare system
Beatrice Motamedi
A compelling PBS documentary explores the mess that Al Gore and George W. Bush refuse to confront.
Missed New York
Julie Pham
At a state beauty pageant, one contestant sabotages her chances by telling the sordid truth.
“An American Health Dilemma”
Annie Murphy Paul
Long before the horror of the Tuskegee experiments, blacks were suspicious of the white medical establishment -- with good reason.
Wonderful Wellbutrin?
Michael Castleman
Most antidepressants suppress sex drive, but some new evidence suggests this one might be different.
The Olympics: Friday
Alicia Montgomery
Bad-boy swimmer Gary Hall Jr. shares the gold, Marion Jones takes her first steps and American softballers beat voodoo.
Medical gender wars
Cathy Young
First came the whining feminists. Next, the inevitable male backlash. Health research has become a casualty of the battle between the sexes.
Germ theory of obesity gains weight
Tabitha M. Powledge
An Indian researcher believes a virus may be responsible for obesity -- and he's not as crazy as he sounds.
Lanes of glory
Gary Kamiya
A flying Dutchwoman, an underdog Italian and the irrepressible
Americans make swimming history at Sunday night's showdown in the
water.
Put that chip where the sun don’t shine
Katharine Mieszkowski
Soon you can have a tracking microprocessor implanted in your body. Is this a great technological breakthrough -- or Big Brother's last laugh?
See no AIDS, hear no AIDS
Megan Williams
In Swaziland, villagers spend every weekend burying their dead, but they still can't admit what's killing them. A report from ground zero of the African holocaust.
Does capitalism make you sick?
Jacqueline Stevens
Gene studies are sexy and well funded, but they can buttress racial thinking and distract the public from the socioeconomic roots of disease.
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