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...write about the importance of looks for women on TV. Is that a hard thing to deal with? Yeah, it is. You know what? It's an age-old problem in this business. You can get bitter, and you can get angry, and you can be mad about the reality, but it exists and I do my best to sort of take as good care of myself as I can. I'm 42 years old, and there are certain things I can't control. The challenge is to try and look great, yes, but also to try and transcend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...punishment - or just the threat of punishment - that's the key. Bshary and others already knew that in the wild, male wrasses, which are larger than females, become hopping mad when their partners steal a bite of their clients, and they often chase the female around in a threatening manner. To prove that this was indeed the physical scolding it appeared to be, Bshary and colleagues ran a tank experiment in which they introduced a plate of normal fish flakes (which wrasses like) and prawns (which wrasses love) to two fish. If either fish ate a tasty prawn, the researchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Fish (Yes, Fish) Punish One Another | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...April 18 1983, eight members of the Agency were killed when the US Embassy in Beirut was blown up by a Hizballah suicide bomb. A retired officer who was then in active service says the Agency "was in shock for about one day... and then we got mad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CIA Takes a Big Hit in the Afghan War | 1/1/2010 | See Source »

Chess has had prodigies, most notably Paul Morphy and Bobby Fischer, who have been lost to madness. Do you fear that trying to master a game of near-infinite variation can make you insane? It's too hard to predict the future, but right now I don?t see myself going mad. It's easy to get obsessed with chess. That's what happened with Fischer and Morphy. I don't have the same obsession. I love the game, and I love to compete, but I am not obsessed with the struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magnus Carlsen: The 19-Year-Old King of Chess | 12/25/2009 | See Source »

...their premiums are spent on administrative costs like marketing, salaries and profit. "If you buy a gallon of milk and you end up with half a gallon, you're not really happy about that. But in that case, you can take it back to the store and get mad." (See the top 10 health care reform players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forcing Insurers to Spend Enough on Health Care | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

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