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Small-stakes players also tend to do better with small-denomination cards. A pair of jacks may easily beat a pair of fours, but people who don't gamble much tend to win more with the fours - or with any cards from twos to sevens. That's because the cards' modest numerical worth is easy to understand: they're valuable but not that valuable. When you get into the more rarefied air of eights to aces, you may start losing perspective and putting up more money. "Small pairs have a less ambiguous value," Siler says. (See more about casinos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Winning Can Mean Losing in Poker and Life | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

...allowing governments and people to make lifesaving preparations. Earthquakes, however, are stealth disasters, geological phenomena largely undetectable until just seconds before they occur. What scientists have long wanted to know is why quakes are so sneaky and what, if anything, can be done to read their warning signs better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could the Haiti Earthquake Have Been Predicted? | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

...more repetition we get with training and competing, the better we are going to do,” Brady said. “From now until the end of the year we’re going to have a pretty steady rhythm of training…For the next couple of weeks we’ll be at home, looking to build on what we did [this weekend...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Track Races to Strong Showing at Dartmouth Relays | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

Palin's problem six months after leaving the governor's job in Juneau is that she remains no better informed about national and international affairs than she was as a candidate. With Palin settling in for regular airtime before a vast audience - as opposed to invitation-only speaking events around the country - her weaknesses may once more be on display. The job requirements of punditry - commenting on a variety of political and nonpolitical happenings - are not necessarily the best preparation for a run at the Republican nomination, even in this environment. (Just ask Pat Buchanan.) When asked by O'Reilly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Uncertain Future of Sarah Palin | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

...question remains: Will Palin run in 2012? She will not say, at least for now. But perhaps the better question is, Can anyone in the Republican Party stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Uncertain Future of Sarah Palin | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

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