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Although Congress last month passed healthcare reform legislation intended to extend coverage to more Americans, a substantial population will remain vulnerable, according to Medical School neurology professor Rachel Nardin, who is senior author of the study. “Unfortunately, the new health law doesn’t fully address this problem...
Harvard Business School professor Howard H. Stevenson, author of the book “Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life,” headlined the event and spoke about what constitutes “enough” personal success. Stevenson outlined what he believes are the four cornerstones of personal success—achievement, happiness, significance, and legacy...
What makes ramps ramps is not their flavor, you see, but their cultural value. David Kamp, the author of The Food Snob's Dictionary, offers this explanation to TIME: "The ramp is not a salad green, but it is a green vegetable, and it is the first legitimately green thing that appears from the ground in April, a month that, in terms of farm yield, is otherwise an extension of winter. For food snobs, therefore, ramps are overcelebrated and overly scrutinized, like the first ballgame played in April, even with 161 more games ahead." (See how gourmet food is making...
Josh Ozersky is a James Beard Award-winning food writer and the author of The Hamburger: A History. His food video site, Ozersky.TV, is updated daily. He is currently at work on a biography of Colonel Sanders...
After he was listed on this year's TIME 100 poll to determine the world's most influential people, Chinese author Han Han wrote a blog post announcing, "Other Chinese nominees include sensitive word, sensitive word and sensitive word." It was something of an inside joke, but one that Han's huge fan base would immediately get. "Sensitive word" was a jab at China's Web censors' habit of sometimes blocking even commonplace names from display in blog posts and Web searches. Within days, his post had generated more than 20,000 comments, most in support of the writer...