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...Since Jan. 2, the Standard & Poor's 500 index has given back roughly half of the 24% gain it had logged since mid-November's low of 741. The financial news, spiked with bankruptcies, bank losses, surging foreclosures, rising unemployment and a slew of lifestyle stories on how to live on less, is unnerving investors. On Thursday they confirmed their wariness by taking the Dow Industrials below 8000 briefly before boosting the index back to close at 8212, up 12.35 points...
Simon Baron-Cohen, director of Cambridge University's Autism Research Centre, has shown in past research that men are more likely than women to score low on tests of empathy but high on tests of "systemizing" - recognizing rules and patterns - characteristics that, in the extreme, define autism. That's what led Baron-Cohen to regard the disorder - which is about three to four times as prevalent in boys as in girls - as one of the extreme male brain and to search for a link to male hormones. (See "The Year in Medicine: From...
...Thakoon Panichgul, 34, a Thai-born designer whose name went viral when Michelle wore his red floral-print dress on the final night of the Democratic National Convention. Other possible contenders include Jason Wu, Narciso Rodriguez and Isabel Toledo. Some insiders venture that Obama might even play the low-key populist card and wear J. Crew, a brand she supposedly likes to buy online. (See pictures of Michelle Obama's fashion looks...
Stay CoolWhatever happens, don't bad-mouth your boss. "Take the high road," Post says. The low one could make job hunting harder...
Thank you, TIME, for giving us solid reasons to be hopeful on the crucial energy issue [Jan. 12]. With incentives for energy efficiency, the economy would hum with millions of local projects requiring little or no government planning. Moreover, by choosing a relatively low-tech policy that the world could readily copy, we would at last become leaders in climate protection--and in rejecting the needless and dangerous expansion of nuclear power. Egan O'Connor, SAN FRANCISCO...