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...brain's processing power. You start daydreaming about a vacation, which leads you to think about potential destinations, how you would pay for the trip, whether you could get the flight upgraded, how you might score a bigger hotel room. These cognitions require what psychologists call "executive functioning" - for example, planning for the future and comparing costs and benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Doodling Helps You Pay Attention | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...Whether you call it Paris métropole or a Greater Paris, structuring the city within the framework of an enlarged, better-organized region is a major key to both the future of Paris and its tourism industry," says Jean-Bernard Bros, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of tourism. In tourism terms, that's already happening, with people traveling to or staying near attractions such as Versailles and its famed château to the west or the Marne-la-Vallée home of Disneyland Paris to the east. But the plan is to now go farther in other directions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Much Greater Paris | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

Watch out, Harvard! The neighborhood residents are going to TP the gaping hole you call the first science complex...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Our not-so-friendly neighborhood? | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

...museum is housed in a renovated 1934 apartment building. Inside, look for furniture and craftwork by design icons such as Erich Mendelsohn and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Outside, check out nearly a dozen other Bauhaus architectural beauties on Bialik Street and around the square. For more information, call (972 3) 620 4664. - by David Kaufman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Wonders: Quirky Art Collections | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

...politician traveling in Africa for a charity event when the loss of your wallet leaves you stranded without cash or credit cards. Who you gonna call? Would you mass-e-mail voters back home begging for a quick loan? Hundreds of constituents of British Cabinet minister Jack Straw found this message waiting for them. "I misplaced my wallet on my way to the hotel where my money and other valuable things were kept. I would like you to assist me with a soft loan urgently with the sum of $3,000 US Dollars to settle my hotel bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cabinet Minister Needs Cash: The Jack Straw Scam | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

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