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...wouldn't think a diet would be a cause of marital discord. But it often is - at least when couples try to shed pounds together and, as often happens, the husband drops the weight a lot faster than the wife does. Well, guess what, guys? It's not your steely resolve or your trips to the gym or your superior genes that are entirely behind it. It might just be your brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Men Are Better Dieters Than Women | 1/19/2009 | See Source »

...globally public venue." Is that really the main problem here? That teens are practically advertising their vices? That they might damage their reputations? This study seems to imply that the oversharing of risky behavior is the problem, not the behavior itself. Moreover, the study's authors second-guess their own research by noting, and rightly so, that many teens - or anyone who maintains a social-networking account for that matter - don't always tell the truth when protected by a digital barrier. Perhaps more time should be devoted to studying the factors that inspire such behavior, rather than the various...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teens Behaving Badly? | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...which of the roughly 1,600 improperly rejected absentee ballots to include in the results. They came to a consensus on about 950 of those ballots. When asked about Coleman's argument that all of those improperly rejected absentee ballots should be counted, Solem, the trucker says, "Well, I guess they should count those. But it'd be nice if they just got this done and over with." Minnesotans, it appears, will just have to endure this recount like another bad winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coleman vs. Franken: Minnesotans Say Enough Already! | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...Excusing the gag of supposed bipartisanship, what makes this inauguration so “historic” for petition-signers has nothing to do with what one might guess. It has nothing to do with Barack Obama being the first black man elected President of the United States. His blackness is inspiring, but his meteoric rise to power has been an experience fairly different from that of a typical African-American leader. As an icon of African-American progress, Obama’s story is anomalous—he had a white mother and was raised by his white grandparents...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Barack Like Me | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

...simple to understand how to eat better, why aren't people doing it? I guess you could say brainwashing, habit, tradition. I guess you could say people are so confused and desperate for magic bullets and tricks that something as simple as this is sort of hard to swallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cookbook Author Mark Bittman | 12/29/2008 | See Source »

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