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...shadow of rising China and ritzy Japan, South Korea has traditionally had to try that bit harder than its near neighbors to attract international media attention. As a result, some believe the country has developed an inordinate curiosity about the ways foreigners perceive it - and that would partly explain a fascinating photography exhibition taking place in Seoul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The National Image | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...does, it focuses on the content of each page. That may make sense in theory - after all, the most popular restaurants, for example, rarely serve the best food - but it is precisely the model that Google broke away from in order to give users more relevant results. That could explain why a Cuil search on "insomnia" directs the user to the American Insomnia Association rather than to the Wikipedia entry on the subject pulled up first by most other search engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Cuil Is No Threat to Google | 7/28/2008 | See Source »

...weight range of about 10 lbs. to 20 lbs. that the body tries hard to defend. The further you push you weight beyond your set point - either up or down the scale - some researchers say, the more your body struggles to return to it. That might help to explain why none of the women in Jakicic's study managed to lose much more than 10% of their body weight. After two years on a calorie-restricted diet, keeping up more than an hour of physical activity five days a week on average, most were still clinically overweight (though much less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myth of Moderate Exercise | 7/28/2008 | See Source »

Researchers have long known that people with diabetes have a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than other people. What researchers couldn't explain was why. But now scientists at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine say they may have some clues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diabetes Drugs May Help Alzheimer's | 7/28/2008 | See Source »

Karadzic, a trained psychiatrist, may have been aided in his deception by friends or the Serbian government. But his ability to so completely transform himself--and so completely convince those who lived and worked alongside him--is more difficult to explain. In his study on the psychology of mass murder, The Nazi Doctors, Robert Jay Lifton wrote, "No individual self is inherently evil, murderous or genocidal. Yet under certain conditions virtually any self is capable of becoming all of these." In Karadzic's case, the reverse was true. The warlord charged with ordering the massacre of more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

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