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...wrong during that pause at the top of the swing; doubts can creep in, and a player can twitch at the key moment - a disaster when millimeters of variation in the angle of the clubface lead to yards of dispersion in the flight of the ball. To avoid such errors, a blend between the two approaches is necessary: whoever wins at Birkdale will have consistently succeeded in maintaining the correct technical position while also holding his nerve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: The Path to Perfection | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

...Chinese internet censorship system, could be seen in a sort of online game of whack-a-mole, as posts, pictures and video of the rioting and its causes were deleted within hours, or even minutes, of being posted. But the locals have continued to create new ways to avoid being blocked. Instead of posting on social discussion forums, where such topics are usually raised, netizens wrote about the incident on video game bulletin boards and other unrelated sites. They also used jocular code words for the incident ("bonfire party") and deployed special software that reversed sentence order so that lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Protests: A New Approach? | 7/4/2008 | See Source »

During his first term, which ended in 2006, Roberts managed to avoid 5-4 splits--for the most part, he said, because his colleagues were eager to be nice to the newcomer, like prospective in-laws meeting a fiancé for the first time at Thanksgiving. Then the honeymoon ended. When various Justices were asked last year whether they thought Roberts could rebuild an atmosphere of bipartisan harmony, they were hardly encouraging. Scalia scoffed, "Good luck!" Justice Stephen Breyer suggested Roberts could best foster comity by joining Breyer's opinions. Kennedy had a similar response: "Just let me write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court's Group Hug | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

Among the 45-and-over set, senior citizens in particular have little exposure to sexual-health information, and few places to seek it out. Primary-care physicians would be the natural source, but Lee worries that too many doctors avoid the topic because they feel uncomfortable discussing it with older patients, or worse, they make the "dangerous assumption that older people are not engaging in sex after a certain age." That lack of communication perpetuates ignorance. So, Lee says that until comprehensive sex-ed measures are established for older people, it may fall to younger generations to teach their elders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Midlife (and Older) STDs | 7/2/2008 | See Source »

Kagan urged community members not to share the e-mail with others in order to avoid publicity that might lead to "copycat threats." She said that "[t]hreats against the Harvard community and its members are not uncommon," but that she wanted to inform faculty and staff "out of an abundance of caution...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Law School Classes Canceled Because of Threat | 7/2/2008 | See Source »

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