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...hard to remember your manners when you think you're about to die. The human species may have developed an elaborate social and behavioral code, but we drop it fast when we're scared enough - as any stampeding mob reveals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Titanic vs. Lusitania: How People Behave in a Disaster | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

Lloyd used to own racing bikes, and he confesses to hitting speeds of 130 m.p.h. on empty, straight roads. He no longer does it, he says, because he has a family. "I know how I am - I have to go fast, you know, and pop wheelies," he says. "I have family and kids. It's not worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida's Fast Motorcyclists Are a Growing Menace | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

Quietly, U.S. diplomats, aid workers and military trainers have been working in the frontier tribal areas with the army and whatever brave tribal maliks they can find. The idea, say Pakistani military officials, is to identify fast projects - small dams or marble quarries, for example - and get them built and working under the protection of those tribes that will benefit directly. Only this way, say officials, can the tribes turn away from the militant-run enterprises - banditry and running guns and drugs - that earn them money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Taliban War: Bringing Back the Music | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...just at the Burger Bash, but also in the omnipotent market, where fortunes rise and fall over the narrowest bits of brand differentiation. (Take away Ronald and the King, and only an expert can tell the basic McDonald's and Burger King hamburgers apart.) (See the 10 worst fast-food meals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Anyone Improve Upon the Classic Burger? | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...examples of perfection rather than creation. (To be fair, both have great specialty products - the Shack a remarkable breaded portobello burger, and Bill's a double-patty onion-and-butter Fat Cat on an English muffin. But those aren't really core products, as they say in the fast-food business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Anyone Improve Upon the Classic Burger? | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

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