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...flower beds and mounds of perfect lawn. "These gardens are about ideas first and foremost," says author Tim Richardson. "They're not mainly about plants and they're not really about function." Instead, they use surreal scaling, vivid colors and otherworldly shapes "to disrupt the modernist feel of rational, calm, ordered spaces - it sometimes looks as if some sort of earthquake has occurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Improbable Gardens | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...previously worked out how, especially considering the known risks - sensation-seeking and impulsivity among them - associated with persistently high levels of the hormone. The increased levels measured in Cambridge's brief study might have been acute, as opposed to chronic. And the research was carried out during a relatively calm period in the markets. But consider what scientists call the "winner effect": two athletes preparing to compete against one another will both experience rising testosterone levels. After the race, though, only those of the eventual winner would continue to climb; the loser's falls. The winner thus gets a persistent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Testosterone Means High Profits | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

...passed in Sadr City with no dead or wounded appearing in the hospitals of the battered Shi'ite warren, where clashes have left more than 100 dead. Overnight the gunfire that had rattled across the slum through the past several days slowed, and by late afternoon Sunday an edgy calm was emerging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Front in the Sadr Standoff | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

...blamed the United States for Nouri's death. "The occupier wants to cause sedition," said Sheikh Abdel Hadi al-Mohammedawi, an official at the Sadr office in the southern city of Karbala, speaking on behalf of Sadr. But Mohammedawi, also said that Sadr is urging his followers to stay calm for now and not to raise their weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq Assassination Reignites Tensions | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

What have you accomplished in your four months in office? The government has been repairing Poland's image, and its relations with the European Union and the world. In the first 100 days we wanted to calm down the conflicts which for the past two years in Poland have devastated public debate. We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Interview: Donald Tusk | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

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