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...dutifully ran his stale Gaza story without noticing that they'd run the same piece a week before. There is a numbing sameness to stories about Gaza, but Sacco's illustrations, backed by his methodical research, bring the Gaza of 1956 bleakly to life, using the past to explain the present in a way that rarely makes it into today's news stories. He inks his characters and scenes with the same meticulous detail that he invests in his reporting. (See pictures of life under Hamas in Gaza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza: A Cartoon History | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

...Colorado at Boulder, became intrigued by the relationship between gut bugs and weight when they noticed that lab mice lacking a certain protein had more of the bugs than other animals and were about 15% heavier. These mice also had a higher level of inflammation, which the authors explain in their paper published online Thursday in Science Express is what may account for the extra weight. Inflammatory signaling can promote a condition called metabolic syndrome, which causes weight gain, high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels and a higher risk for developing diabetes and heart disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hidden Trigger of Obesity: Intestinal Bugs | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

Abzhanov said that the next challenge is for researchers to explain the genetic origins of the higher order transformations that account for the differences in beak shapes above the species level...

Author: By Christopher M Lehman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Studying the Beaks of Darwin’s Finches | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

...schools include more resources and teacher training programs, and both of those can be beneficial solutions. Yet identity economics shows us that a school’s culture can be just as important, if not more so, in contributing to the success of its students. Akerlof and Kranton explain how many schools that have bucked the trend and succeeded where others have not have done so because of a cohesive culture where teachers and students feel united for a common mission or purpose. There are few, if any, “outsiders,” because everyone buys into...

Author: By Ravi N. Mulani | Title: Identity and Incentives | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

...educated," Wasserman says. Richard Lance Keeble, a professor of journalism at the University of Lincoln in northern England, says the British tabloid obsession with sex and sleaze drives the type of coverage seen with Zuma. "Add to that heady brew a pinch of unacceptable racism and you can easily explain the tabloid treatment of President Zuma's visit to London this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa's Zuma vs. the Media in London | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

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