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Arika Okrent is fluent in English, Hungarian, American sign language and ... Klingon. (O.K., so she has only first-level certification in Star Trek-speak.) Okrent, a linguistics scholar, spent the better part of five years perusing library card catalogs and attending colorful conferences to learn about languages created by one person and, in some cases, adopted by thousands. Her new book, In the Land of Invented Languages, chronicles the scientists, idealists and eccentrics who tried - and failed - to create the perfect parlance from scratch. TIME spoke with Okrent about defending the cranks from the critics, ordering sandwiches in Esperanto...
...sunk as people move to functional drinks that promise to hydrate you, focus you, give you a boost and perhaps calm you down. "Consumers want the added benefit," says Tom Pirko, president of Bevmark LLC, a consulting firm. "If you're a new player, the label on the can better send a very strong message that it's doing something else for you besides just tasting good. The industry is verging on pharmacology...
...drink during the day which would help them relax, calm down, and not have to keep an old bottle of gin in their drawer," says Bianchi. You can also take a sip before bedtime and perhaps save yourself some cash the next day. "Something like this gives you a better night's sleep," says Bianchi. "You're going to wake up feeling better rested and less apt to get a double venti-venti-venti at Starbucks, then wash it down with a Red Bull just to get through your day." (See the top 10 food trends...
What was different about the recent stress tests was that unlike the usual bank-by-bank examinations, the stress tests looked at all the banks as a group. By aggregating the data, the Fed presumably could make better estimates of what would be the loan losses at the individual banks. The stress tests also looked out two years, instead of the usual one, as regulators gauged if banks could weather a worsening of the economy - where the stress in the name comes from - and not just whether they had enough capital to pay for current losses. Most importantly, the results...
...great hurdles stand in the way of Russia's realizing its space dreams: a collapsing public-education system and a brain drain that for decades has been siphoning off the country's highly trained engineers as they move to better-paying jobs in the West. It is this second issue that the museum aims to address. "We need our youth to become interested in space again," says Laveikin. "We need to develop a youthful corps of engineers and cosmonauts...