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Much of the answer, they found out, depends on the beholder's sex. The men in the study were less likely than women to click off photos of unattractive babies - viewing them for the full four seconds - but clicked quite a bit to hold on to the images of the pretty ones. Their reactions were the same whether they had children of their own or not. Women, conversely, left the keyboard alone when they were looking at pretty babies but hurried away from the less attractive ones - with the results again not seeming to be influenced by whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is an Ugly Baby Harder to Love? | 6/24/2009 | See Source »

...second round of election debates was held on June 23 in Jakarta, this time with the three vice-presidential candidates squaring off for an hour on national television. While the event was designed to create a more lively exchange than usual, the format still resembled a question-and-answer session with little in the way of sparring between candidates. Still, viewers voted by text message on the winner of the debate, choosing Boediono, the running mate of current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Indonesia Vote, Change Not on Ticket | 6/24/2009 | See Source »

...think it's fair, Margaret, to just say that you just think it's neat to ask me about my smoking as opposed to it being relevant to my new law," Obama chided. The President accused Tapper of playing "ombudsman" for pointing out that the President had declined to answer the third question of another reporter, USA Today's David Jackson, about health care. (Read "Obama's Three-Part Case on Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press Stops Playing Nice with Obama | 6/23/2009 | See Source »

Jackson was not the only reporter the President cut off. When NBC's Chuck Todd asked for the second and third time what consequences Iran would face for violating the human rights of election demonstrators, Obama protested. "I answered. I answered," the President said, giving no concrete answer at all. "I answered your question, which is that we don't know how this is going to play out. O.K.?" Obama queried rhetorically, clearly not caring what Todd thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press Stops Playing Nice with Obama | 6/23/2009 | See Source »

...asked questions of every President since John F. Kennedy, then interrupted him, asking him why he would not release disturbing images of U.S. military abuse of detainees. "Hold on a second, Helen. That's a different question," the President responded, though he never took the time to answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press Stops Playing Nice with Obama | 6/23/2009 | See Source »

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