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Why? Technology is only part of the reason. A study published in the February issue of the Journal of Educational Psychology found that just 9% of American high school students use an in-class computer more than once a week. The cause of the decline in handwriting may lie not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mourning the Death of Handwriting | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

“In the past, there were always physicists and mathematicians who came into biology…. But they essentially had to abandon their previous fields completely,” Kirschner said. “Now, there are many important questions in biology that require very specific quantitative and...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: King, Kirschner Named University Professors | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

Dogs have proved their value to both the military and law enforcement, Hess says, detecting explosives, working with narcotics officers and locating missing persons and bodies. But the alleged misuse of dog-scent evidence could cast a shadow over its value to law enforcement. In the 1980s, polygraph tests came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dogs and the Scent of a Crime: Science or Shaky Evidence? | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

The most important obstacle to negotiating an acceptable compromise with the Taliban, however, is the fact that the insurgents - and a substantial part of the population - believe they're winning the war. That gives them no incentive to accept compromises offered by the government and the U.S. The purpose of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does the U.S. Have an Exit Strategy in Afghanistan? | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

The basic assumption of the U.S. political strategy in Afghanistan appears to be that the Taliban cannot be engaged from a position of weakness. Perceptions are exceedingly important in a warlord society with a long-established tradition of local commanders switching sides to back the force deemed most likely to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does the U.S. Have an Exit Strategy in Afghanistan? | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

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