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...experience shows how one family answered a common question facing wealthy (and some not-so-wealthy) parents: When children grow up amid plenty, how can they be taught to be sensible about money? We're not talking about checkbook-balancing skills. There is a plethora of practical advice for that, just as there's no shortage of guidance when it comes to transferring assets from one generation to the next. Harder to come by is advice for parents on how to bequeath to their children not just a fat inheritance, but also the values and work ethic that produced their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Free Rides, Kid | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...more studies need to be done to differentiate between "good" and "bad" sleep. The participants in his study recorded the duration of sleep, but not the quality - for instance, whether they experienced disturbances or nocturnia, the medical term for the need to get up and urinate at night, a common condition among the elderly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Little Sleep Adds to Risks of Hypertension | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

Once I learned to prattle a little in Spanish, she figured out that we had nothing in common, so she dumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One-Night Stands: A Rough Guide | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...common narrative of mankind's development generally starts with humans planting crops and settling down in one place to reap what they sow, founding villages that would form the building blocks of human civilization. But further study of the Natufian culture and other parallel societies, such as those living by China's Yellow River, is complicating that belief. Agriculture was not established in the Levant when the Natufians lived there, but they still erected rudimentary structures to inhabit. Traces in the soil of the remains of mice and sparrows - animals that exist most commonly in places of human settlement - point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 12,000-Year-Old Shaman Unearthed in Israel | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...Shamans are mystics whose common function in traditional cultures was that of a healer. Analysis of the woman's remains date her as being 45-years-old, a significant age at a time when life was nasty, brutish and short. She was under five feet tall and deformities in her spinal and pelvic bones give the impression that she may have walked with a limp, or dragged her feet. The presence of the hollowed-out tortoise shells, combined with intact bone pieces of leopards and other creatures - the complete forearm of a wild boar, for example, was placed under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 12,000-Year-Old Shaman Unearthed in Israel | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

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