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The average American makes more than 200 decisions about food every day, according to Brian Wansink, director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab. Most of the time we don't even know we're making them--until we discover that our clothes no longer fit. Wansink wants to alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A Nibbler Nation | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

You recently learned that your family has a large African-American wing. I was very emotionally touched to discover that. I went to speak at the installation of a historical marker at my great-grandfather's grave--he's buried near Sam Houston--and this guy walks up to me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for James Baker | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

For readers who like their short stories with a Roald Dahl-ish twist, Every Move You Make could be a form of Chinese water torture. As the title character of Mrs Porter and the Rock, about a widowed suburbanite dragged by her son to Uluru, complains: "Nothing had happened." But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Never a Dull Moment | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

This year, DiCaprio's toughest competition for a Best Actor Oscar may be himself - he's pretty sensational as a Rhodesian jewel smuggler in Edward Zwick's Blood Diamond, due out in December. He's gone from precocious child star (in What's Eating Gilbert Grape) to teen idol (in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faithful Departed | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

Rarely are students told, when they call Harvard University Health Services (UHS), “Sure, you can come in anytime. How about tomorrow at 9:00 a.m.?” Wherever you go, scheduling a doctor’s appointment is a difficult task but UHS’s...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: A Rich Incentive | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

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