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A distinguished constitutional law professor who has argued three dozen cases before the Supreme Court, Tribe’s book proposes six different models that he said help to decipher the Constitution’s meaning. Last night, he discussed two of those models, what he called the geometric and...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Courts Center of Tribe Talk | 10/21/2008 | See Source »

Early studies of oxytocin's role in social interaction have yielded some interesting results. In a small 2006 experiment, Dr. Eric Hollander of New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine administered synthetic oxytocin and a placebo intravenously to 15 autistic adult patients; afterward, those who received oxytocin were better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Oxytocin Ease Shyness? | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

In early 2006, Interpol - the global police network based in Lyon, France - received from Norwegian police a cache of 800 disturbing images, roughly 100 of which depicted a man sexually abusing at least three boys aged between 6 and 10 in 2000 or 2001. While a luggage tag in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santa Vs. Interpol | 5/9/2008 | See Source »

There are moments when Faeza Jaber wants to pick up Khattab, her 7-year-old son, and flee back to Baghdad. Life in Phoenix is proving harder than she had expected. She needs a job that will pay her rent--not easy for a 48 year-old single mother with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Iraqis Come to America | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

“That’s when I started reading and writing in Korean, trying to decipher the language, and I ended up learning the many words for heartbreak,” Baek says.

Author: By Jenny J. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Korea Stardom for Baek | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

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