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...comfort of Jeremy to the drenched adventure of Declan. You don't have to have seen the 1945 Brit film I Know Where I'm Going!, with Wendy Hiller as the prissy traveler who finds improbable love, to know that Leap Year is a simple ransacking of older, better movie romances. And of bad ones too: the scene in which Anna and Declan, barely on speaking terms, are forced to have a big smooch in public, got an airing in The Proposal; and the local dance where the warring parties start to fall in love was in... The Morgans? Doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leap Year: The Worst Film of 2010 | 1/9/2010 | See Source »

...leap from a mouse study to a human study, of course - and an even bigger leap to consider developing a G9a-based treatment for addiction. The protein regulates so many genes that such a drug would almost certainly have unwanted and potentially deadly side effects. But a better understanding of the G9a pathways could lead to the development of safer, more specific drugs. And studying the genes that control G9a itself could also help screen people at risk for cocaine addiction: those with naturally lower levels of the protein would be the ones to watch. Still, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Cocaine Scrambles Genes in the Brain | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...study, helps people consider the pros and cons of continuing to drink in their current pattern. Reid Hester, director of research at Behavior Therapy Associates in Albuquerque, N.M., and one of the authors of the study, says he suspects that these additional elements may have accounted for the better results his site got. His study also included people with more severe problems, some of whom may have been more motivated to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Problem Drinkers Finding More Help Online | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...space, and people who look for [assisted living] aren’t finding them only in places with rich people or big cities,” Wiliams said, pointing to homes in Wisconsin and Florida with only four or five beds as examples of care that “better fit the needs of small communities” that the study may not have considered...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Unequal Distribution of Assisted Living Homes Hints at Problems, Study Says | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...White House and conducted the probe himself, seemed to take responsibility for this part of the failure. "I told the President today, I let him down," Brennan said. "I am the President's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism. And I told him that I will do better, and we will do better as a team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flight 253: No Finger-Pointing, Plenty of Blame | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

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