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...letting the birds forage for their own food. Accustomed to a steady supply of grain, Stone Barns' trial geese had no need to gorge themselves once the weather turned chilly. "They were delicious," recalls Barber. "But their livers were the size of Ping-Pong balls." It was time to call in the Goose Whisperer himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Ethical Foie Gras Happen in America? | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

Since its launch, the truck has been in high demand. Coolhaus has more than 4,300 followers on Twitter, where they are kept up to date on the truck's whereabouts. It has been profiled in food and design media alike and recently fielded a call from someone at Gehry's office, wondering when the truck would be making its way to that neck of L.A.'s suburban sprawl. And in a town where none other than Brad Pitt has made distinctive architecture as necessary as a personal trainer (Pitt interned at Gehry's office in 2004), the truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cool Way to Make Architecture Pay: Ice Cream! | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

...insurance brokers would have a strong incentive to nudge sicker or older individuals or small groups toward the exchange, skewing the risk pool there and driving up premiums. "You just have to cherry-pick a little bit to be really profitable," says Pollitz. Both the House and Senate plans call for regulations and rules to prohibit this. But, as Jacob Hacker, a health-policy expert at Yale University, puts it, "The real concern comes down to having adequate resources for enforcement. It's one thing to have rules and another thing to make sure insurance companies are abiding by those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Health-Insurance Exchanges | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

...changes had been made, including the introduction of alternative service for conscientious objectors and the opening of the forces to women. Overall, the level of conscripts available for call at any one time dropped from 10 percent of the population to 5 percent, due to a lowering of the retirement...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Service with a Smile | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...April 25, Rod Daniels, the deputy director of the World Influenza Centre in London, was at a meeting in Germany when he received a call from a co-worker: an influenza outbreak had been reported in Mexico and the first samples of the virus were on their way to London for examination. A virologist who has studied flu for more than 30 years, Daniels knew exactly what he was looking for. Influenza A viruses - the type that can cause pandemics - use a protein called hemagglutinin to bind to the cells of their animal hosts. When a virus jumps from animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flu Hunters: Racing to Outsmart a Pandemic | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

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