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...urbane literary figure and satirist of the urbanely literate. A Yale grad and former book agent, he has had a short story (edited by Plimpton) published in the Paris Review and writes nonfiction for the New York Times Magazine. But listen to the commentaries he gives as a resident expert on The Daily Show and you'll discover that one of the deadliest potential consequences of global warming is an unfrozen-caveman crime wave. Crack the spine of his faux atlas, The Areas of My Expertise, and you'll learn of Frédéric Chopin's ladybug obsession, Maine...
...commend TIME for the forum of views on the Iraq war, "Was It Worth It?" [March 27]. While the question may not have immediate relevance to our policy options in Iraq, it provides an important framework to evaluate future actions. I was disturbed, however, that none of the experts you gathered weighed the cost of the war abroad against investments at home. Had the U.S. taken the billions of dollars spent on the war and instead invested them in a moon-shot-style program to gain energy independence, would such a war even have been necessary? What about investments...
ANDREW WEIL An expert in the art of integrating Western medicine with herbal healing Richard Davidson is a pioneer in exciting mind-body medicine frontiers. His best-known work focuses on a capacity of the brain to develop and change throughout life. Using Tibetan monks as research subjects, he has shown how meditation can improve brain function. His studies may lead to therapeutic approaches for anxiety disorders and reveal ways to protect against memory loss and cognitive decline...
...uncool an activity as synchronized swimming. For a couple of decades, dance has been self-expression, of an orgiastic, onanistic sort, not connection and communion with a partner of a different gender. Yet the show demonstrated, as Take the Lead does, the blend of precision and passion in an expert dance number. One girl in Take the Lead, watching a couple execute a hot tango, marvels that "It's like sex on hardwood." The contestants on Dancing With the Stars often lacked polish. But look, ma, they're sort-of dancing, in a way she might remember with appreciative nostalgia...
Edelman, a spyware expert, found evidence of two kinds of click fraud schemes through Yahoo—one in which companies repeatedly click their competitors’ ads in order to rack up the number of views—and charges—and another in which spyware installed on the computer reports false clicks...