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...similarly themed courses likewise sprouted up in universities across the United States, drawing consistently large audiences. Nor was this a fad, like phone-booth-stuffing or streaking, for bored college kids alone. Baby boomers—Oprah not excluded—consumed the newest books on happiness research as fast as publishers could roll them out, sating the metaphysical void once filled by “The Tao of Physics...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: Squeezing the Lemon | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...supposed to be a good time for small companies to grab competitors' business and grow - but if Britain's small cap market is anything to go by, many of those firms are struggling. The Alternative Investment Market (AIM), the London Stock Exchange's junior market for dynamic and fast growing smaller firms, has been hammered over the past year. The main index of its shares has slumped by 50% since the same time last year, far more than the losses on the FTSE 100, an index of Britain's leading shares. In the opening quarter of 2009, AIM listed just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London's Small-Stock-Market Blues | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

Since most back patients seek help when they're experiencing extreme pain, fast-acting acupuncture may be a reasonable option for them. A year ago, experts at the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society sanctioned it when they included acupuncture in their recommended treatments for back-pain sufferers. "This study is consistent with those recommendations that if pain relievers aren't helping you, then acupuncture is a reasonable choice," says Nahin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Acupuncture for Bad Backs: Even Sham Therapy Works | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...Fast Facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stan McChrystal: The New U.S. Commander in Afghanistan | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...night, but at daily morning breaks for ham sandwiches, and at the closing lunch, held on the dehesa, where the jamón ran as freely as the wine - no one, it seemed, tired of eating the stuff. Standing beneath a cork tree, Piero Sardo, president of the anti-fast food organization Slow Food, reached for yet another slice. "Delicious," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Swine Flu? Spain Celebrates Cured Ham | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

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