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...behavior, it weakens the neural connections that underlie the desire; each time he or she rewards the craving with the bad habit, the brain pathways, and the addiction, are strengthened. It helps for people to remind themselves that if they can resist an addictive urge once, it will become easier and easier to do it again in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Falling Off the Wagon Isn't Fatal | 12/30/2008 | See Source »

Gift-giving was so much easier when we were kids. Old Spice soap on a rope for Dad and something sparkly for Mom - whether or not they particularly liked these presents was secondary. It's the thought that counts, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love Your Partner? Send Him Away! | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

...Victorian penchant for drunken revelry still colors higher education in the U.K. The decision to study abroad often involves a desire to partake in Britain's lively pub culture and take advantage of the lower drinking age of 18. Some also believe that universities in Britain are simply easier than those in the States. It's a common joke among American students that LSE, the initials for the London School of Economics, one of Britain's most esteemed universities, stand for "Let's See Europe," because they think the courses are less rigorous than at U.S. institutions, thereby allowing time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American at Cambridge: Hot Victorian Sex! | 12/23/2008 | See Source »

...Young girls, on the other hand, can be an asset to a candidate's image. "There's definitely something in the father daughter-relationship that makes being in the public eye much easier," says Meeks. "Girls want to please their mothers and particularly their fathers. Their dads can take their daughters places and do things with them and the girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White House Family Values: Where Are the Boys? | 12/23/2008 | See Source »

...shop and another that would invoke binding arbitration after 120 days of negotiating. Businesses argue EFCA could cost them, and therefore the economy, untold billions annually. Union advocates argue that the bill is not just good for unions but a boost for the economy as well. "If it becomes easier for working people to form unions and get more bargaining power and therefore higher wages, the economy will be helped," said Robert Reich, a former labor secretary under President Clinton and an adviser to Obama on labor during the campaign. "EFCA will be good for the economy because it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Obama Deliver for Organized Labor? | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

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