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Chemistry is not destiny, of course. Lightfoot hopes to use his research to help determine which patients may need a bigger boost to get moving - he thinks that perhaps close supervision by trainers or rewards for exercising will encourage genetic lazybones to get to the gym. And maybe one day, he speculates, there might even be a drug to compensate for what your genes won't give you. A drug that makes you want to exercise? Now that's a pill worth swallowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Laziness Gene? | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

...West in the last few years. It is also a fact that it carried out more than 50 suicide bombings in Pakistan in 2007. Al-Qaeda is taking full advantage of the weakness of Pakistan's new government to recruit, train and arm more jihadis. This will boost its chances of hitting targets in the U.S. or Europe. Western nations must pressure and help the Pakistani government to crack down on al-Qaeda and the Taliban, its identical twin. Iftikhar Qureshi, SYDNEY

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mandela's Lessons | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

...this category, what with Nite Owl's ship, Bond's Aston Martin and some sort of GI Joe digging device on the floor. But this Mustang on steroids designed for NBC's new Knight Rider boasts Lamborghini doors, a top speed of 377 m.p.h. and, most importantly, turbo-boost. All that vehicular decadence helps us forget about $4/gal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comic-Con: And the Winner Is ... | 7/28/2008 | See Source »

...will be a few weeks before anyone can accurately measure the political impact of Barack Obama's trip to Southwest Asia, the Middle East and Europe but it is without a doubt the most important campaign swing he's made in months and almost certain to help him boost his standing with Americans who still do not regard him as highly on defense and foreign affairs as they do John McCain. Fixing that imbalance - and polls show he trails McCain by margins of as much as two to one when voters are asked who they trust more as a potential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week in Politics | 7/26/2008 | See Source »

...other ways to deliver a bomb--from offshore submarines or cruise missiles, for example, neither of which could be intercepted by proposed SDI technology. SDI planners see their defense as a multilayered ''architecture'' that could blunt a Soviet attack during the three distinct stages of delivery: the missile's boost, or launch, phase; midcourse, essentially the intercontinental space flight after the nuclear warheads and decoys have been released; and terminal, or re-entry, when the deadly warheads drop back into earth's atmosphere heading toward their targets. The most important of these is the boost phase, during which an ICBM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCIENTIFIC HURDLES | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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