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What does that mean for regulation? You can set up certain decision rules that try to keep people on the straight and narrow, but too much regulation about the details is going to get you in trouble. The big banks should probably be fairly boring and reasonably well regulated. And...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Common Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

The initial appeal of hooping is that it's fun, but its lasting value is that it works. An hour of intense hooping can burn as many calories as an hour-long run on a treadmill. Exercisers can get a full-body workout with moves like HoopGirl's "pulse," which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hula Hoops: From Child's Play to Real Exercise | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

Alternative futures call for alternative language. “1984” had Newspeak, “A Clockwork Orange” had Nadsat—each distorted, disorienting vocabulary a warning of possible ills. In “The Year of the Flood,” her most recent...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Atwood’s Apocalyptic ‘Year’ More Fun than Flood | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

Paul Aufiero is best described as a man-child. At 35, he lives with his mom, thinks that 10:46 p.m. is a little late to be heading out to a party, and sleeps with a poster of his idol, fictional New York Giants star Quantrell Bishop, above his bed...

Author: By Brian A. Feldman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Big Fan | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

When I applied to Harvard, my application must have been compelling, considering I got in. The only problem was, it was far from complete. I failed to mention something about myself that is a big part of my life: I really, really like cars.Maybe it’s best I...

Author: By David I. Fulton-Howard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Revvin’ the Engine | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

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