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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...characterize the planet's atmosphere, Charbonneau said that he will need a space-based instrument like NASA's Hubble Space Telescope...

Author: By Tara W. Merrigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BRIEF: Harvard Researchers Discover 'Super-Earth' | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

...Insurance companies can do whatever they want with premiums unfortunately, so the medical loss ratio is a superb instrument," Rockefeller said in an interview with TIME, adding that customers have a right to know how much of their premiums are spent on administrative costs like marketing, salaries and profit. "If you buy a gallon of milk and you end up with half a gallon, you're not really happy about that. But in that case, you can take it back to the store and get mad." (See the top 10 health care reform players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forcing Insurers to Spend Enough on Health Care | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

...Ketjapi," published in 1956 and the last of the 13 stories, is about a Sundanese debt collector who moves to Jakarta after his marriage fails, his only consolation the melancholic tones of the story's namesake instrument, his future "tattered and full of holes." It's an equally apt description of Indonesia, which had recently emerged a sovereign but brittle country after centuries of Dutch rule, Japanese occupation and four years of revolution. Reflected in each of Pram's protagonists from the fringe - illiterate wash maids, scabietic houseboys, night watchmen, guttersweeps - are the growing pains of a tentative new nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sense of Place: Jakarta | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...eliminates the need for stirring, which is a common source of contamination from brettanomyces - yeast that leads to spoilage and cloudiness. "We used to break our backs racking and stirring the wine, and here's a system that works better than man," says Schlaepfer. "It's a magical vinification instrument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Wine In Old Vessels | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...during deep sleep - a phase of non-rapid eye movement sleep. (The other broad type of sleep, called rapid eye movement or REM sleep, which is when dreaming occurs, is believed to play a role in consolidating memories involving emotions and motor skills, such as dancing or playing an instrument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Boost Your Memory? Try Sleeping on It | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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