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...marriage could actually save the institution of marriage. What would some of the effects be that maybe people aren't considering now? What I do think it would do is make marriage relevant again, in a way that it's seeming to not be as much anymore. A lot of heterosexual couples are reluctant to get married because there's a sense of, Why should I have access to this when my friends who have been together just as long as me don't? It starts to make marriage look like a country club. Almost the only way that marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eat, Pray, Love Author Elizabeth Gilbert | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

...some statistics to show how a lot of young people's marriages end up in divorce. In general, do you think people under 25 shouldn't get married? What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eat, Pray, Love Author Elizabeth Gilbert | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

...think most doctors would expect that? No. A lot of the reaction is, 'My God, another piece of paperwork? It's just a waste of time.' We had 20% in our surveys [of doctors who adopted the checklist in a study] that still felt it was a pain, a waste of time; they didn't want to use it. Of course, we asked them a follow-up question: If they were having an operation, would they want the checklist? And 94% of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atul Gawande: How to Make Doctors Better | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

...lot of good things coming from the bench,” Markley said. “Everyone contributed toward the end of the game, which is really good...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Big Game Marks Birthday In 71-55 Drubbing of Navy | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

...Iraq: By negotiating a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the Iraqi government shortly before leaving office, Bush made Obama's job a lot easier - because that agreement sets a cast-iron deadline for withdrawing all U.S. troops. Obama may press for an earlier drawdown to free up resources for Afghanistan, but even if he doesn't, the SOFA requires that all U.S. troops be out of Iraq by the end of 2011. Iraq remains far from stable, and the Obama Administration is working through diplomatic channels to cajole the Iraqis into managing their ethnic and sectarian political struggles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Defaulted to Bush Foreign Policy Positions | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

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