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The medical community has long been interested in how the brain is affected by music. Historically, however, most research was linked to the cortex, the brain's outer layer, which is associated with functions like memory, consciousness and abstract thought.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Using Music to Ease Patient Stress During Surgery | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

He also fervently believes in investment cycles as a natural outcome of human behavior. The commodities boom is one such cycle, he says, and it won't last forever. "These commodity bull markets tend to last 18 to 20 years. The current one started 11 years ago," he says. No...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silver Lining: Jim Rogers Talks Up Commodities | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

This being Britain, mudlarks follow protocol from a higher power. Codifying a centuries-old tradition, the Treasure Act of 1996 dictates that any object dating from before 1709 and containing more than 10% gold or silver belongs to the Queen, although the finder and the landowner must be compensated. (The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Following in the Footsteps of the Mud God | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

As a speechwriter, he made Spiro Agnew sound fizzy--"nattering nabobs of negativism" was his alliterative classic--and helped Richard Nixon explain his policies. (He later explained Nixon himself in a historically rich memoir, Before the Fall.) William Safire, who died Sept. 27 at 79, was not just a fighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: William Safire | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

The government's objective is simple: increase student motivation and class attendance and reduce the number of French teenagers who leave school without earning a diploma or professional training certificate, roughly 120,000 to 150,000 each year. The program is being tested at vocational schools, not at the more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Students Be Paid to Do Well in School? | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

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