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...sumo wrestlers cheat, why drug dealers are poor, the socioeconomic patterns of naming children - the book Freakonomics brought economic analysis to bear on unexpected and quirky issues and came up with unexpected and quirky answers. It's little surprise, then, that the 2005 book - by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen Dubner - sold more than 3 million copies worldwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are the Freakonomics Folks Off Base on Global Warming? | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...also had enough water to grow an entirely new crop of sunflowers during the winter. The pond, he says, helped double his usual output of lentils as well. The added sales put an extra $1,000 in his pocket, which he saved as a nest egg for his two children. "I feel that my life is secure," says Thakare, 36. "You don't worry about what will happen in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Land: The New Green Revolution | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...detects ovulation by monitoring a woman's temperature and the amount of cervical mucus. But this process is not 100% accurate. And several studies on climate change note that the best way to protect the planet is to have fewer children. "Around the world, more than 40% of pregnancies are unintended, and full access to birth control is still unmet," says Jim Daniels, Trojan's vice president for marketing. "Meeting that unmet need would translate into billions of tons of carbon dioxide saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex and the Eco-City: Getting It On Is Getting Greener | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

Evolutionary biologists teach that tying a man linguistically to his wife and children increases the odds that he'll stick around to help raise them, so using Ms. with your birth name theoretically carries some risk. Over the years, surveys have found that such women were seen as less feminine, worse mothers, more dynamic, less attractive and better educated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mrs., Ms. or Miss: Addressing Modern Women | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...spoke, a band of children, perhaps bored with the kites for a moment, gathered around the nearby dog cages of the Mine Dog Center, a local landmine clearing NGO, and a more disturbing symbol of day-to-day life in the Afghan capital than kites on the wind. This was strange because Afghan children do not seem generally to like dogs, fearing them, perhaps, as much as the landmines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On a Kabul Hill, the Dogs and Kites of War | 10/25/2009 | See Source »

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