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...most designers?whether they work in fashion, fabrics, architecture or even, say, jewelry?make it their business, literally, to divine what consumers will want next. Can kid mohair become the new cashmere? Will tanzanite ever replace diamonds? Can consumer conscientiousness co-exist with the new luxury? Designers put forth these questions first, and then they find the technology or the raw materials or the audacity to propose them as ideas. As Miuccia Prada points out, often the idea that seems the least likely to succeed is the one that becomes the best seller. Today technology moves quickly, and tastes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Predicting the future is always a tricky business. | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...universe. But the ATA can listen on a private line too--the one on which suspiciously regular pulses emanating from the vicinity of sunlike stars would be carried. That's how our broadcasts would sound to beings out there, and that's how their broadcasts--if they exist--would sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Up | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...anybody," he says. "To me the movie's about realizing that becoming an adult is about understanding there's no certainty. I used to think, Maybe there's some kind of answer key that you'll find that says, 'Well, the answer was B.' That doesn't exist. Really, you have to do what Kenzie did-make the decision based on what he believes in. Those decisions have a cost for you and sometimes for other people, and you'll never know really if they were right or if they were wrong. You just have to trust your own judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Director Looks Familiar | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

Although it could not seem more unlikely today, Harvard and MIT were once very nearly a single school. Claiming that it was unreasonable for two highly similar institutions, MIT and Harvard’s Lawrence Scientific School, to exist in such a small area, then-University President Charles W. Eliot and MIT President Henry S. Pritchett undertook a highly controversial campaign from 1904 to 1905 to integrate...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Polytechnic? | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

...still, many patients fail to acknowledge that those threats exist. For some, admitting to stress feels like a sign of weakness; others resign themselves to it, as if it were an unavoidable dimension of life. So most of us simply carry on with our 15-hour workdays and fraught relationships. In another study published in the October 8 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers at the University College of London followed a group of about 9,000 civil servants for 12 years and found that people who experienced negative close relationships - marked by conflict and fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Stress Harms the Heart | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

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