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...shown the costs of a focus on supposed morality at the expense of actual consequences. For example, the Bush administration’s refusal to negotiate regularly with the Iranian government, while grounded in a generally sound moral judgment of that government’s character, had the practical effect of allowing the Iranian nuclear program to progress substantially. Insofar as dispassionate factual analysis prevents this sort of moral indignation as policy, it is worth encouraging...

Author: By Dylan R. Matthews | Title: Must Have a Code | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

Rankin points out that even small changes in a person's energy balance can have a significant effect on weight. Studies have shown that eating just 10 to 20 extra calories per day - that's one peanut M&M or one tortilla chip - that don't get burned through activity can result in a 2-lb. gain on average over the course of a year. "But none of the methods we have now are accurate enough to pick that up," says Rankin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teen Obesity: Lack of Exercise May Not Be to Blame | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...takes off two months every year to become (along with a waiter, a bus conductor and a man who collects coconut juice) a divinely possessed dancer. A Tibetan monk recalls how he found himself taking up arms against Chinese invaders. A temple dancer - or sacred prostitute, in effect - remembers how her father sold her off to a shepherd, when she was 14, for $15, a silk sari and a bag of millet. (See pictures of India's contraband wildlife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: William Dalrymple's Nine Lives: Into the Mystic | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...climate. Falling real wages and low business investment mean Japan's recovery is fragile. A recent Nikkei newspaper survey showed that 38% of top Japanese executives rated the likelihood of another downturn next year as high or somewhat high. The biggest risk, cited by 69% of respondents, was "the effect of fiscal stimulus measures wearing off." Hatoyama appears to be willing to continue stimulus spending under the circumstances even if that means more red ink. He has learned a lesson from 1997, when Tokyo prolonged and deepened a recession by raising taxes prematurely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hatoyama's Challenge in Japan | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...think predominantly it’s had an incredibly positive effect on Harvard Square,” said Matthew C. Lichansky, the Director of Operations at Upstairs on the Square. “It gives people the excuse to rediscover...

Author: By JOANNE S. WONG, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lights, Camera.. Filming! | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

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