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The honest answer is, because otherwise she might have missed the opportunity to buy a $380 dress for $40. Watching Thurman deliver this line, I thought of the opportunity Dieckmann missed. Her eye for the details of motherhood, from the list-making to the depressing nature of adults socializing in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uma and Motherhood: A Parody Waiting to Happen | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Despite persistent urban legends, Sales never did blue material for the kids - though his staff did play a prank in which a topless balloon artiste danced to "The Stripper" while the on-set monitor indicated that the career-ending nudity was live on the air. (It wasn't.) He did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell to the Pieman: Soupy Sales, 1926-2009 | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

So a reader could get the latest gossip about former tennis champion Boris Becker from Germany's biggest-selling tabloid, Bild, then add political stories about Chancellor Angela Merkel's negotiations to form a new coalition government from the liberal daily Tagesspiegel, a sprinkling of economic stories from the German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Customized Paper Survive the Demise of Print? | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Steve Jones, an evolutionary biologist at University College London who has previously held that human evolution was nearing its end, says the Framingham study is indeed an important example of how natural selection still operates through inherited differences in reproductive ability. But Jones argues that variation in female fertility - as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darwin Lives! Modern Humans Are Still Evolving | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

The scientists insist they didn't overdo it with the Windex, just a few spritzes - so we can rule out brain-cell death or intoxication-induced generosity as reasons why those receivers gave back so much of the booty. Rather, Liljenquist says, "a moral awareness was awakened in a clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do 'Clean' Smells Encourage Clean Behavior? | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

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