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Regina George, Serena Van Der Woodsen, and Marissa Cooper may have more to thank for their popularity than just great hair. A group of researchers from Harvard and the University of California, San Diego have suggested that social network structures have a genetic basis—meaning that popularity may be coded in one’s DNA. According to co-author and Harvard Professor of Medical Sociology Nicholas A. Christakis, the findings expand on the common intuition that genes influence social behavior, accounting for the variability in an individual’s popularity. “The interesting point...

Author: By Gordon Y. Liao, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Social Networks Based on Genes | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

...Asian women are smarter, more attractive, and have about themselves a generally superior level of class does not mean I have a fetish. Just that I'm racist. 8. I eat gummy bears by tearing them limb from limb and eating their heads last. 9. I can't grow hair on my arms. 10. Two of my best friends are under five feet tall and I have an intense fear of midgets. 11. I think yoga is incredibly spiritual. I know the Lord is with me in my downward dog. (See pictures of facial yoga.) 12. I was born with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...these measures, some of the tax cuts need to go. Both chambers included a tax credit for first-time home buyers, a hair-of-the-dog solution to a crisis that has its roots in an artificially inflated housing market; it wouldn't provide stimulus, and it wouldn't point the country in a new direction. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center says the Senate's $70 billion patch to the alternative minimum tax is "neither timely nor targeted" and "makes no sense as economic stimulus." But the biggest component--a $145 billion payroll-tax cut--is both good stimulus, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Spend the Stimulus | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...baby-boomer) fans, continuing to come up with edgy, often reckless, occasionally brilliant material. Other stand-up stars, like Pryor or Jerry Seinfeld, didn't win their greatest acclaim until they graduated to movies or TV series; Carlin remained, resolutely, "just" a stand-up comedian - one, moreover, whose long hair and hipster attitude came to seem increasingly dated. (Read TIME's 2004 "10 Questions For George Carlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Carlin: The Long Goodbye | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...clips are exceptionally well chosen. For the uninitiated, there's the famous "seven dirty words" routine (the seven still bleeped, of course), and his still audacious routines on religion and death. But there are also generous helpings of early bits from his short-hair days (cracking up Johnny Carson with his Hippy Dippy Weatherman) and rareties like Carlin sitting at the piano on Arsenio Hall's show, accompanying himself in a rendition of "Cherry Pie" - as well as a generous helping of his playful but pointed riffs on language, like his account of the progress of military jargon from "shell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Carlin: The Long Goodbye | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

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