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We all love to feign insouciance about cancer, or to tell apocryphal stories about its apparently random nature - of some haggard two-pack-a-day smoker who lived to be 96, versus the exquisite gamine who never smoked, always used sunscreen and did yoga, but went in for a routine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Save Yourself | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

Whenever I read remarks like those, I am reminded of the fact that only 4% of our DNA sequences are different from those of chimpanzees, and that like our fellow primates we are but dumb mammals, powerless in the presence of cheap stimulants (Salt! Sugar! Fats!). The arguments we use...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Save Yourself | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

Everything that happens in the tea industry, of course, depends on its workers. The Plantation Labor Act of 1951 guarantees not just a minimum wage for workers in tea, coffee and rubber but also housing, education, medical care and drinking water. Those benefits add about 11% to production costs and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Brews a Stronger Cup | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

In India, tea has always been more than a business. Tea drinking is as much a part of the national culture as playing cricket or watching Bollywood movies. And like those other Indian institutions, it is changing rapidly. Nearly half the population is under 25, and young people have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Brews a Stronger Cup | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

As I was drinking the first of 20 glasses of water to stay hydrated, a guy two seats away started coughing and didn't stop for 10 minutes. I thought, Can I handle 18 hours of this? Should I have bought that surgical mask? I was still getting adjusted to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Really Long Haul | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

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