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...focus on it). A built-in compass supplements the onboard GPS, so now you'll be able to see not only where you are on a map but also which direction you're facing. Voice commands, cut-and-paste options and a battery that will last 20%-30% longer round out the new product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apple Unveils the New iPhone: Hail, O Great One | 6/9/2009 | See Source »

When the researchers scored the results, it came as no surprise that volunteers' fatigue and stress rose steadily as the test got longer. What was unexpected was their corresponding performance: as the length of the test increased, so did the students' scores. The average score on the three-and-a-half hour test was 1,209 out of 1,600. On the four-and-a-half-hour version it was 1,222; on the five-and-a-half-hour test it was 1,237. Virtually all of the students followed that pattern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stress and Exhaustion May Improve SAT Scores | 6/9/2009 | See Source »

...range of the scores was from about 800 to 1,600," says Ackerman. "[But] within the study, lower-scoring examinees were not more or less affected by longer test lengths than higher-scoring examinees." (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stress and Exhaustion May Improve SAT Scores | 6/9/2009 | See Source »

...list of reasons to admire Barack Obama is longer than Pennsylvania Avenue. But please, and I'm begging here, let's not hold him up as an exemplary husband simply because he takes his wife out on a date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama, Stop Ruining My Marriage | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...Last month, however, the magazine Babylon confirmed that the shaggy-haired Hita had long ago dropped out of his Tibetan University, and that he no longer even considers himself a Buddhist. He was quoted more pointedly in the newspaper El Mundo as saying, "I was taken away from my family and put in a medieval situation in which I suffered a lot. It was like living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a 'Chosen' Tibetan Lama Says No Thanks | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

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