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...Take mating, for instance. When females are scarce, males, not surprisingly, have to fight for the right to mate. Females, on the other hand, are on the hunt for not just any mate but one that can provide food for both her and the clutch of eggs she will lay. (Females, in the ultimate bow to efficiency, tend to lay their eggs on a food source, thus ensuring their offspring have a ready supply of nutrition.) So for males, securing a territory with a food patch is critical to attracting the attentions of a female. (See the top 10 medical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Good Is Sleep? New Lessons from the Fruit Fly | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

Fadillioglu's women's section is an expansive balcony overlooking the central hall and divided only by crisscrossed railings. An airy and luxurious sensibility pervades the building. The facilities for preprayer ablution have blond-wood and Plexiglas lockers. In the main hall hangs a bronze chandelier, dangling with hand-blown glass raindrops - a visual allusion to the Koranic verse that says Allah's light should fall on believers like drops of rain. The mihrab, which indicates the direction of prayer, is tulip-shaped and turquoise - "an opening to God," says Fadillioglu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Updating the Mosque for the 21st Century | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...whose two sons find themselves on opposing sides of the conflict, is No. 1 at the box office. And while using Kurdish spelling remains officially forbidden, people make a point of using their Kurdish names when they can. "Rojhat," says one bright-eyed 29-year-old lawyer, extending a hand when I meet him on a recent trip to the Kurdish region of Turkey. "Not Resat". (Unlike Turkish, Kurdish uses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Turkey, Signs of Change for the Kurds | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...book for working mothers explaining why an egalitarian marriage is optimal seems obvious. Each spouse shouldering half the work is already the fantasy of most wives, particularly those with demanding careers. Who would argue with the proposition that a husband should lift a hand to do some housework or help a child with homework? So why preach to the choir when the men who actually need to read it--type-A husbands--are still at the office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...International, one of the world's best-known wildlife-preservation groups. It is helping Madagascar grow an ecotourism industry that will help save not only the animals but also the people of that desperately poor and politically troubled nation. Saving animal species and changing the lives of people go hand in hand. As Bryan notes, we're animals too, and the more species living in an ecosystem, the healthier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Cycle | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

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