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...expect. He asks Anthony to remove his watch, his necklace and a high school ring, labeled KEEPER. Does Anthony have any metal in his body? Any piercings? Not this clean-cut, soccer-playing Mormon. Giedd tapes a vitamin E capsule onto Anthony's left cheek and one in each ear. He explains that the oil-filled capsules are opaque to the scanner and will define a plane on the images, as well as help researchers tell left from right. The scanning will take about 15 minutes, during which Anthony must lie completely still. Dressed in a red sweat shirt, jeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes Teens Tick | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

Without a doubt, there have been as many disasters as there have been successes. What usually goes wrong is not anything technical. It's my misunderstanding of my clientele's basic trust for me. We did a pig's-ear salad that I found delightful and provocative, but it was a loser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Mario Batali | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...hindsight, one sees that Infinite Jest is ominously infested with suicides, including that of the hero's father, who cooks his own head in a microwave. But back then, Wallace seemed invulnerable. How could a man who had put such crowds of people on the page--Wallace's ear for dialogue was unmatched in contemporary fiction--truly be lonely? Once you've gone inside the mind of a critically burned toddler, as Wallace did in his short story "Incarnations of Burned Children," what horrors can't you face? When he accepted a professorship of creative writing at Pomona College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Foster Wallace: The Death of a Genius | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...opposed to it—we’ll just have to play it by ear. The point of coming here was sort of to get away from all of that for a while, but you never know. I think whomever they get for Yardfest this year, they should clear it through me. [Laughs] No more Third Eye Blinds are allowed. Not OK, very...

Author: By Frances Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Q’s with Mike Einziger | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...many of the white suburban voters that Obama needs to win over. From an inauguration that was celebrated with official "club crawls" to reported stripper parties at the official mansion that sparked the initial probe into his case, the mayor who wore flashy suits and a diamond in his ear has courted the wrong kind of attention. The danger to Obama's campaign is that years of salacious headlines about a young black man in power will bleed into voters' views of his own groundbreaking candidacy. "Michigan is really close. He has to go if we're going to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kilpatrick Out: A Boost for Obama? | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

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