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...Sony, it got worse from there. For the audience, it was a brief oasis of amusement in an otherwise relentless morning of corporate infomercials. "They write the lies; I tell the truth," Hanks said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Consumer Electronics Show: Tom Hanks, 3-D TVs | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...dune buggy-size Spirit and Opportunity are the third in NASA's family of Mars rovers, descendants of the 2-ft.-long Sojourner craft, which arrived on Mars in the summer of 1997. Like its bigger siblings, Sojourner came with only a very brief factory warranty - just 30 days in its case - and like its bigger siblings, easily exceeded it, operating for five months before finally surrendering to the Martian elements. It's rarely a good idea to take NASA's estimates of the lifespan of its ships too literally. The agency tends to lowball these calls, making it more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mars Rovers' Long and Fruitful Journeys | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

...that the coming Israeli election - in which both Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni are candidates, but the more hawkish Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu is the front runner - may be complicating Israel's decision-making. So even if the window of opportunity is closing, there may yet be a brief ground incursion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Is the Gaza Ground War? | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...Brief History of Medical Tourism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Woman, Three Mental Hospitals | 12/30/2008 | See Source »

Risk-taking, by definition, defies logic. Reason can't explain why people do unpredictable things - like betting on blackjack or jumping out of planes - for little or, sometimes, no reward at all. There's the thrill, of course, but those brief moments of ecstasy aren't enough to keep most risk takers coming back for more - which they do, again and again, like addicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Take Risks — It's the Dopamine | 12/30/2008 | See Source »

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