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It is easy for a school to know how many students give birth in a given year, but it is impossible to know how many pregnancies are terminated - especially in a heavily Catholic town like Gloucester. Birthrates are not the same as pregnancy rates, and the national trends for both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give the Gloucester Girls a Break | 6/25/2008 | See Source »

There's been a lot of really interesting research that points to a connection between our memory of the past and our ability to imagine the future. In our studies of animal models of memory, where we're able to go in and actually watch the pattern of [a rat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do We Remember Bad Things? | 6/23/2008 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pew Survey: What the World Thinks of the US | 6/16/2008 | See Source »

Webb is a natural-born provocateur and a human harbinger. His political journey predicted the switch of working-class white people to the Republicans 30 years ago, and in 2006 he became the first prominent Republican - he served as Secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan - to switch to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting to Know Jim Webb | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

"The purpose was not to line up endorsements," says one Obama aide. "But some very important Evangelicals left this meeting impressed. I think they'll go back to their enclaves telling an interesting story." The nearly two-hour-long meeting opened and closed with prayer. For the balance of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Play for the Faithful | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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