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...names. With her soft touch and sisterly concern, she often picked up more information than the hospital psychologists. Captain Katie knew if a soldier was checking out Internet dating services, fighting with a spouse, fretting about bills, or struggling to knot a tie with one hand. She made a habit of staying up at night to acquaint herself with their personal stories and continuously updating them. In mid-November, she walked in on Sergeant Heath Calhoun on his first day on the ward. He was sobbing in the arms of his wife and questioning how he could survive after both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Angels of Ward 57 | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

...most diverse in Harvard’s history! They just let you in because you’ll look good on the admissions brochure.” 10) “The thousand bucks I’m getting to help you is doing wonders for my cocaine habit.” 11) “You don’t need to do the reading for your Core class. You just need to sex up the loneliest TF.” 12) “The beds in the Houses are much more comfortable than the beds...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 List | 9/20/2006 | See Source »

...Another habit of obesity alarmists is to conflate those labeled as overweight with those classed as obese, and talk about them as a single group. For example, instead of saying that about 1 in 5 Australian and New Zealand adults is obese, many experts tend to say that more than half of both populations are overweight or obese. There'd be no problem with that if the two groups' different BMI classifications put them at equal risk of early death. But that's not the case. Indeed, there's compelling evidence that those defined as overweight (with a BMI between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bent Out of Shape | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...Russell 1000) by a few percentage points a year. "We're about hitting lots of singles," says Ronald Kahn, who runs advanced equity strategies at Barclays Global Investors. The Casey, Quirk survey found that quants take about half as much risk as nonquants. Over time, that habit of not losing as much money in down years adds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Investing By The Numbers | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...carbon-emission limits are generating even more demand, and entrepreneurs are rushing to meet it. Just this year my firm has received hundreds of proposals for innovation and opportunities that are breathtaking-- and breath saving. American innovation can end our oil addiction the same way Brazilians kicked their oil habit using ethanol grown from sugarcane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California's Global-Warming Solution | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

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