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Basically, fashion designers spend large sums of money - the average runway show costs around $40,000 - to show off clothing they don't expect anyone to buy. But runway shows aren't intended to sell individual items; they're about publicity, prestige and the overall feel of a designer's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Runway Fashion: Does Anybody Really Wear That? | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

Still, the new findings confirm what oncologists have long known - that, in general, aggressive treatment for older prostate-cancer patients does not significantly improve survival. Indeed, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS), the 10-year survival rate for prostate-cancer patients over age 65 who pursue aggressive treatment (surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Older Prostate Patients: The Case for Doing Nothing | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

Elections closed Monday at midnight, and the HAA has sent out the results to contenders for the Marshal position—which involves planning senior class activities, helping pick the Class Day speaker (please, God, don't give us Bernanke again), and interfacing with the Harvard Alumni Association to plan...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks | Title: Round II Contenders—'10 Class Marshal Elections | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

But is this a particularly American trait? Is the rest of the world experiencing some form of the same malaise? I do think this is a disease of affluence. The problems we're facing are not the problems faced by people in the subsistence society. Furthermore, they're not problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Hate Us | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

Many of the country's mexicanos negros (black Mexicans), as they are called, know that their ancestors arrived in chains on boats that docked at ports in the sultry, steamy state of Veracruz. But they don't know much else. Indeed, Afro-Mexicans say that much of the history of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blacks in Mexico: A Forgotten Minority | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

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