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...child really. Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach. And 10-year-old boys from different cultures have more in common than 30-year-olds. As we grow up, we acquire this sensibility that divides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Rowan Atkinson | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

...ingrowth method works by inserting a porous metal implant straight into the end of the remaining bone. Over a few months, the bone grows around the implant, providing a strong anchor onto which a prosthesis can be attached. Scientists are even finding that the softer muscle and skin tissue that also grow into the pores help prevent infection by producing a bacteria-resistant seal. That is exactly what Noel Fitzpatrick, a veterinary surgeon from Farnham, England, found when he successfully performed the procedure on a pawless pup named Storm a little more than a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wild World of Animal Prostheses | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

...started by Harvard students in 2004 as a tool for meeting-- or at least discreetly ogling--other Harvard students, and it still has a reputation as a hangout for teenagers and the teenaged-at-heart. Which is ironic because Facebook is really about making the Web grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nerd World: Why Facebook Is the Future | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

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, "The majority of soybean crops in Iowa will benefit significantly from this rain...

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

...much of the summer, Art Bunting says "it was getting dry" near his corn and soybean farm in Dwight, Ill., about 80 miles southeast of Chicago. Between the drought and rising demand for corn to produce ethanol, "some people were worried we weren't going to grow enough corn," he says. Now, however, it's a different story. During next month's harvest, Bunting says he expects a higher yield of corn - partly because he increased the amount of acres he's devoted to the crop, but also because the recent "good weather" has helped kernels of corn get plumper...

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

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