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...thinking big. We already eat four times as much meat and dairy as the rest of the world, and there's not a nutritionist on the planet who would argue that 24?oz. steaks and mounds of buttery mashed potatoes are what any person needs to stay alive. "The idea is that healthy and good-tasting food should be available to everyone," says Hahn Niman. "The food system should be geared toward that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...strategy is a variation on what's called herd immunity - the idea that even if you can't vaccinate an entire population, you can achieve nearly complete disease control by vaccinating at least the overwhelming portion of it. That's because every inoculated person serves as a sort of firebreak against the virus; surround the disease with enough people who are immune to its spread, and it simply winks out, never reaching the few people who still aren't immune. The Science study offers a chance to get a kind of herd immunity on the cheap by inoculating the super...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Should Get Swine Flu Shots First? | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...absurd that Americans have this idea that there's a small number of schools that are the "best places" for engineers or doctors or architects or teachers. The fact is, a lot of students change their major during college. The name on the gate is not the important thing. It's what the student puts into it and whether he or she finds challenging professors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the College-Admissions Process | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...home and Aunt Rose was freaking out; she didn't know where my father was. All the worst possibilities crossed my mind - it turned out he was just getting the mail - as well as a very difficult reality: if he'd had a stroke, I would have had no idea about what he'd want me to do. I had lunch with him the next day to discuss this. (See 10 players in health-care reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The GOP Has Become a Party of Nihilists | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...Henry Jones Art Hotel Wandering the hallways at the Henry Jones Art Hotel, tel: (61-3) 6210 7700, you could be forgiven for thinking you had stumbled into an art gallery by mistake. That's the idea, actually. This boutique property, which opened in 2004, aims to promote Tasmanian art, culture and history, and has on staff an art curator and a history-liaison officer to brief guests. There are more than 350 works of art throughout the hotel, all for sale. This place is actually a combination of eight buildings, dating back to 1803, and is named after Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Reasons to Visit Hobart | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

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