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...Felipe's requests is that customers still pay with cash for orders under $10—although Tom Brush, co-owner of the restaurant, clarified that they won't deny credit card payments for orders under...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Felipe's Will Now Take Your Plastic | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

Brush warned, however, that if taking credit cards becomes a significant cost to the business—since the restaurant is charged a flat rate for each credit card transaction—Felipe's may have to raise its prices...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Felipe's Will Now Take Your Plastic | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...silenced. The great hope for ongoing epigenetic research is that with the flick of a biochemical switch, we could tell genes that play a role in many diseases - including cancer, schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer's, diabetes and many others - to lie dormant. We could, at long last, have a trump card to play against Darwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Your DNA Isn't Your Destiny | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

...that signing commitment contracts and publicly announcing a goal helps people stick to it. (The extra K in stickK is shorthand in legal writing for "contract.") Users are not required to wager any money when they sign up, but the serious ones do. Some 30% fork over their credit card information upfront and specify how much money should be automatically charged if they fail to reach their goal. These users also designate a recipient: a person, a charity or, as an additional incentive, an "anti-charity," i.e., an organization on either side of several highly controversial issues. (Think pro-life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Weight-Loss Plan: Getting Paid to Shed Pounds | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

...Bush. Indeed, anti-war Democrats groaned when the President, in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, referred to "evil in the world" and hailed America's willingness to use force abroad over the past six decades as an essential component of global security. The neoconservatives cheered. (See a report card on Obama's first year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Defaulted to Bush Foreign Policy Positions | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

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