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An intriguing new study led by doctors at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston aimed to explore that question through a series of interviews conducted with 141 parents whose children had died of cancer. The study reports that 19 parents said they had thought about asking a doctor to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Parents Weigh Hastening End for Dying Children | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

If you want to make sure you get enough sleep on Tuesday night, you might have to get to bed earlier. You don't have to adjust your schedule by much: about 1.26 millionths of a second ought to do it. According to a NASA scientist's computer modeling, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Chile's Earthquake Shortened Earth's Day | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

Every point on the planet takes the same 24 hours or so to complete a single rotation around Earth's north-south axis, but some points have to move faster than others to spin the full 360° by the one-day deadline. That's because some parts of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Chile's Earthquake Shortened Earth's Day | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

If the physics seems a bit arcane, consider that you probably spent much of the past two weeks seeing the angular-momentum principle in action - at least if you watched the Olympics. Earthquakes change the Earth's rotation the same way a twirling figure skater changes hers - by extending or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Chile's Earthquake Shortened Earth's Day | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

The Oscars is the oldest media awards ceremony, and the prototype for most if its successors. But it’s an improbable television institution, in terms of both its origins and—to put it simply—just how little it has to do with television.

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Widescreen to Flatscreen: Televising the Oscars | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

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