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Campaigning and raising sons are mutually exclusive. Campaigning requires lots of travel, enormous amounts of time in the public eye and months and months of sitting down quietly listening to the same guy talking while wearing your good clothes. It's like 11 straight months of being in church when...

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

The question "What is man?" is fundamental both to Benedict's worldview and to his attempts to convince his flock to question the conventions of modern secularized society. Much has been made of the Pope's recent focus on environmental issues. On Monday he repeated his metaphor that the human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope's Christmas Condemnation of Transsexuals | 12/23/2008 | See Source »

One big problem with letting your buying be swayed by specs is that your underlying preferences likely don't change along with your purchase decisions - and so you wind up at home with things that don't make you as happy. In one experiment, researchers presented two cell phones, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swaying Shoppers: The Power of Product Specs | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...another experiment, the researchers gave people two bowls of potato chips. Type A was thicker than type B; the experimental group was told type A was 1.5 millimeters thick, while type B was 0.8 millimeters. As expected, once people were given the exact measurements, they much more often said they'd choose to buy type A - 51% of the time, compared with 37% for the control group. Yet when people were given the two bowls of chips and told to eat however much of whichever type they'd like, the two groups ate type A at practically the same rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swaying Shoppers: The Power of Product Specs | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

Getting into his Toyota Prius, Fukasawaguchi says that when he moved to Tokyo as a young man he didn't bother telling people where he was from because no one knew of Kuzumaki. It's different now, he says; the town is familiar to Japanese throughout the country. Whether it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Japanese Town That Kicked the Oil Habit | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

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