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...merely crossing the street are all acts that involve discernible risks and uncertain rewards. The more small returns you get from your small investments in stocks, the likelier you are to make - and lose - a big investment. The more times you get behind the wheel and speed a little bit, the likelier you are to speed a lot - with deadlier consequences...
...that's true, it could mean that a plateau is the best we can hope for and that the next step - the trip down the other side of the weight mountain - will never happen. "That's an up-in-the-air question now," concedes Ogden. Dietz is a bit more optimistic, saying the saturation theory does not hold up because children and adults have plateaued at such different points. "You can't argue that adults will saturate at one rate and kids at half that rate," he says. (Watch TIME's video about exercising with a hula hoop...
...which move on top. The fastest of the body waves is the P wave, and it's thus the first to travel from the epicenter to a seismic station where it can be detected. P waves don't give you a whole lot of notice, but even a little bit can help. In California, gas lines in many homes are now equipped with P-wave detectors, which sense a coming tremor and shut off the inflow valve to prevent fires and explosions if the house is shaken severely...
...work by Zilhão and his colleagues, says Trinkaus, "is just one more important piece in that puzzle that says these people may have looked different, but behaviorally, cognitively and socially, they were not all that different from you and me." That includes their taste for a little bit of bling...
...year-old M.B.A. student aims his camera phone at a neon green model of the world's cheapest car and takes a photo. Mehra sees the appeal of the small, sleek car that has gained almost celebrity status in India, but his heart is set on something a bit grander in the New Delhi Auto Expo showroom - the upmarket Audi Q7. (Watch a video on owning a Nano...