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What are other health consequences? Frequent marijuana use can seriously affect your short-term memory. It can impair your cognitive ability (why do you think people call it dope?) and lead to long-lasting depression or anxiety. While many people smoke marijuana to relax, it can have the opposite effect on frequent users. And smoking anything, whether it's tobacco or marijuana, can seriously damage your lung tissue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Why I Would Vote No On Pot | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...That forehand is the central component of a style that tennis experts call "counter-punching." It's one that absorbs an opponent's attacking play with aggressive returns, and springs from Nadal and his uncle's contrarian instincts. Nadal is naturally right-handed. But early on, Toni decided his protégé should play with his left hand to impart unusual southpaw spin. Toni then encouraged, or perhaps failed to correct, the extreme grip Nadal uses, and the unusual way he swings his racquet. To this day, instead of using the forward momentum of his body to generate pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Nadal's New Spin | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

Clawing back gains absent fraud--and where there are no preset clawback agreements--is another matter. The concept is foreign to most of Wall Street. Hedge funds generally have only what you might call "claw forwards": high-water-mark provisions that prevent managers from pocketing performance fees after a loss until they've made up that loss to their investors. Investment banks, meanwhile, have for decades paid out bonuses on the basis of one year's profits and worried about the consequences later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy Cleanup: Clawback to the Future | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...back to your--what do you call it?--your Google, and you figure out all that.' GEORGE H.W. BUSH, when asked about previous statements regarding his son's shortcomings as President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...Egyptians are suggesting that both sides agree to an immediate truce, then work out long-term details on lifting the Israeli blockade of Gaza. However, one member of the Hamas politburo in Damascus complained to TIME that the proposal does not call for the immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. "Without that, it's a joke," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.N.: No Hamas Fighters in Bombed Gaza School | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

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