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In principle, this cycle of stress accumulation and release should be fairly regular, but scientists are finding it is not. Paleoseismologist Tina Niemi of the University of Missouri--Kansas City, for example, is studying a stream-fed marsh near Tomales Bay that has preserved evidence of past earthquakes in its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons from the San Francisco Earthquake | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

What's the first thing you do if the ground beneath you starts to rumble and the walls begin to shake? Grab the kids and run? Check your home-insurance policy? Fall on your knees and pray for deliverance? All logical enough reactions, but not your very first one. Instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evolution of Faith | 4/1/2006 | See Source »

And those were just the illegals the border patrol determined had arrest records. Most go undetected. Reason: the border patrol's electronic fingerprint-identification system, which allows officers to determine how many times an alien has been caught sneaking into the U.S., has only a limited amount of criminal-background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illegal Aliens: Who Left the Door Open? | 3/30/2006 | See Source »

But some scholars disagree about the need to present porn in class. In Sex and the Law, a senior seminar given by Paul Abramson, a psychology professor at UCLA, the screening of Inside Deep Throat, a documentary about the making of the notorious '70s porno film, is optional. Porn is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex in the Syllabus | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

Despite the fact Harvard’s nondiscrimination code omitted “gender identity and expression,” “Eric,” a transgendered man who asked not to be named for fear of being “outed,” came anyway. He...

Author: By Rosa E. Beltran and Mark A. Moody, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Gender Bent | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

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