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Volandes believes that using images and videos of advanced dementia could be particularly helpful for educating populations that have traditionally low levels of health literacy in the U.S., including African Americans and the elderly. Previous studies have suggested that minorities typically opt for more aggressive end-of-life care than their Caucasian counterparts - "but what we've found in this study is that health literacy is the driving force in this discrepancy, not culture," says Volandes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Videos Help Prepare for End-of-Life Care | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

Craps is known as the world's most common dice game and it is played, with varying rules and sizes of table, in virtually every casino on the planet. Craps is a game of chance rather than skill, and with a low house advantage - around 1.4%, which makes it harder to beat than blackjack but easier than roulette - even novices can win. That is, if they're lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Craps! How a Gambling Grandma Broke the Record | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

Whenever Berlusconi reaches a new high - or low - I make a point of checking with veteran La Repubblica columnist Filippo Ceccarelli. "Even if you think he's a scoundrel," says Ceccarelli, "a scoundrel creates attraction, popularity. There's a reason people go to see movies about figures like him. When the electorate is really just an audience, he continues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlusconi and the Girl: No Spice, Thank You | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

...vennes onions, capers, black olives and rocket emulsion. Pic is intrigued by unusual smoked tastes too. Asparagus is lightly smoked over beech and served with an exquisite layer of Aquitaine caviar. Even more unconventionally, the subtle bitter roast of Blue Mountain coffee is an inspired partner to low-temperature-steamed turbot, butter whisked with Menton lemon and gossamer-thin ravioli made with turnip and a hint of Arabica butter. "I like to exalt the role of vegetables beyond mere condiment; it's part of a more feminine sensibility to cuisine but I invariably convert men, too," Pic says, smiling. (Read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Taste of France on Lake Geneva | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

...there is a subconscious fear of death, then it's best to remove the fear. So you can say things to yourself like, 'If you're going to die anyway, and with other bodies lying around, many of them younger than you, then die high. Don't die low...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sir Ranulph Fiennes | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

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