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...York and nearly 1,000 in Chicago during the early 1990s. Many theories for the decline over the past decade and more have been floated; from the Freakonomics suggestion that legalizing abortion effectively wiped out a population of would-be criminals, to the decline of the crack epidemic, to an increase in law-abiding immigrants, to savvier police work, technology and just plain economics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Low Can the Crime Rate Go? | 1/18/2008 | See Source »

...want to perpetuate the species and ensures that we do it right. But nothing could convince a person in love that there isn't something more at work--and the fact is, none of us would want to be convinced. That's a nut science may never fully crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Science of Romance: Why We Love | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

Plants would crack and pulverize cities and highways. Moose and wolves would return, and the forest would become dense again. Reading The World Without Us, you want to cheer at the springy resilience with which the earth bounces back from the damage humans inflicted on it. Global warming is our newest and most cherished apocalypse, but even the atmosphere will eventually rebalance itself, more or less. "I wanted to write a book that was intentionally not apocalyptic," says Weisman, who teaches journalism at the University of Arizona. "Apocalypse means destruction, and the whole world ends. In my book, I show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apocalypse New | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...after the intro lecture.” 15) History 10a, “Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures: From Antiquity to 1650:” “Every time any of these professors speaks, I slip into a coma, fall out of my chair, and crack my head on the desk of the person sitting to my right.” N.B.: this is an actual course evaluation...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Ways to do the Q Nasty-like! | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...want to perpetuate the species and ensures that we do it right. But nothing could convince a person in love that there isn't something more at work-and the fact is, none of us would want to be convinced. That's a nut science may never fully crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Love | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

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