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This is what soybean farmers call the "seed-filling" period. It is perhaps the most critical time for crops to receive moisture. Without it, experts say the seeds abort or don't grow to their potential size. Walt Fehr, a professor of agronomy at Iowa State University in Ames, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Rains Better Than Drought? | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

And the winner (yawn) is... U.S. News and World Report issued its annual college rankings this week, with Princeton beating Harvard as top university and Yale coming in third. Just like last year. Williams edged out Amherst as the best liberal-arts college. Again, just like the list that came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Much Ado About College Rankings | 8/18/2007 | See Source »

Those bells are louder after Chavez recently revoked the license of an opposition television network, RCTV. The problem wasn't that RCTV was pulled off the air - it loudly encouraged a coup attempt against Chavez in 2002, something the FCC probably wouldn't condone in the U.S. - but that Chavez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chavez's Push for Permanence | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

CONTEXT Banished from pubs and offices, bored smokers find themselves filling the minutes by tapping out wireless messages. Experts have dubbed the new activity "smexting." The practice is so popular that British cell-phone company Orange reported a surge of 7.5 million messages sent during the first two weeks of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dashboard: Aug. 27, 2007 | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

The need is so pressing that the Pentagon is eliminating many of the hoops suppliers usually have to jump through. This time around, instead of filling in forms and submitting paperwork to qualify as a bidder, those interested in participating merely have to register at this week's competition to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Coming Robot Wars | 8/13/2007 | See Source »

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