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...concerns over "cheating": on tasks involving working memory and impulsivity, stimulants had a leveling effect, allowing below-average performers to catch up to their peers, not dominate them. According to Farah, the typical student user is actually not the overachieving brainiac but a "white male frat brother with a B average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Popping Smart Pills: The Case for Cognitive Enhancement | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...announcement marks a continuation of Obama's push to put in place his cabinet and key advisers sooner rather than later. By contrast, President Bush's first solicitor general, Theodore B. Olson, was nominated on Feb. 14, 2001 and did not take the oath of office until June of that year...

Author: By Elias J. Groll and Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Obama Names Law School Dean Solicitor General | 1/5/2009 | See Source »

...possible for a foreign male to visit Thailand without getting a) waylaid in a girlie bar, or b) arrested? This question struck me recently in Phuket, where the best-selling titles at the airport bookshop included a self-published novel about a murdered Thai prostitute, an exposé of the country's sex industry and two memoirs by foreigners who had served time in Thai jails - a genre already as overcrowded as the prisons themselves. That Singapore publisher Monsoon Books feels there is room for one more - Nightmare in Bangkok by Andy Botts - begs two more questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jailhouse Schlock | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

...their decisions, you gave us some lists along with cutesy drawings and clip art. You forced your bread-and-butter subscribers to sift through dozens of pages at TIME.com to read a few lists. I understand that a) you need to make money from ads on your website and b) you could not have printed all your lists in the magazine. But at least give us the chance to hear out your TV critic instead of printing his list in microscopic type on the cover. Also, in "Top 10 Religion Stories," your writer neglected to mention that the Mormon Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

...entire menorah was basically destroyed—one of the arms was broken off, six of the bulbs had been destroyed,” said Joel B. Pollak, a student at Harvard Law School. “When I looked more closely, I saw the electrical wires had been cut.” Pollak said he discovered the damage while walking by the park on Friday just past noon. He wrote about the incident on his blog later that...

Author: By Emily J. Hogan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Chabad Menorah Vandalized | 12/30/2008 | See Source »

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