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...specifically in a part that's adjacent to a brain region associated with addiction. If the two areas indeed overlap, as Fisher suspects, that helps explain why telling a jilted lover that it's time to move on can be fruitless--as fruitless as admonishing a drunk to put a cork in the bottle...

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

...relationship. As adults, up to 75% of us marry. Certainly, nature doesn't make things easy. From babyhood on, it equips us with the tools we'll need for the hardest social role we'll ever play--the role of romantic--and then chooses the moment when we're drunk on the hormones of adolescence and least confident in ourselves to push us on stage to perform. That we go on at all is a mark of our courage. That we learn the part so well is a mark of how much is at stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Love | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...specifically in a part that's adjacent to a brain region associated with addiction. If the two areas indeed overlap, as Fisher suspects, that helps explain why telling a jilted lover that it's time to move on can be fruitless-as fruitless as admonishing a drunk to put a cork in the bottle...

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

...just salacious film clips that people are watching either: In June, authorities blocked access to an online video apparently showing drunk police officers in Henan province beating up a college girl that had been posted to several major video-sharing websites. And this week, mobile phone videos showing hundreds of people protesting against a proposed extension of Shanghai's maglev train line have appeared on YouTube as well as on mainland web portal Sina.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's YouTube: Trouble for Beijing | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

...single most important person of the 21st century. Occupying the largest landmass of any nation, Russia has just begun to tap its natural resources and national potential. Putin's rise to power in 1999 is an astonishing story and was a stroke of genius by an otherwise embarrassing drunk of a President, Boris Yeltsin. Putin is that rare individual who came to govern Russia without the cancerous corruption that seems to plague East European politics. We have watched him grow over the past eight years into a brilliant politician and forceful leader who is determined to bring his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

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