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...sawyouatsinai.com an army of flesh-and-blood matchmakers scours the site's database in search of potential matches for its thousands of Orthodox Jewish members. The model has been so successful that its founders are planning to replicate the service for alumni associations and non-Jewish religious groups. TIME's Adam Goodman spoke with Tova Weinberg, 54, the most popular of the site's 365 matchmakers...
What's more, the carefully crafted wines come with storage to match: architectural cabinets by British furniture designers Linley, each one topped with a scale model of the château behind the vintages. The handmade sycamore replica of Château Margaux - a perfect mock-up of the producer's 19th century mansion - houses three bottles, while, underneath, the cabinet's five drawers cradle a further 15 vintages, from the fresh 1961 to the powerful and complex 1995. The cabinets even have secret compartments: hidden beneath the steps to the model mansion is a space for your corkscrew...
...probably difficult for people to minimize the effects of their own biological rhythms. For example, you cannot avoid your morning risk by simply waking up later. Some researchers have tried an experimental model, in which people were instructed to stay in bed for four hours after they woke up before rising. But the same pattern simply occurred four hours after waking, because the risk is linked to our activities. We can't be afraid of the catecholamines and the peak in blood pressure in the morning. It's part of our physiology. And for healthy people...
...industry consortium's voluntary guidelines will also address consumer privacy and transparency and encourage companies to be up-front about the limitations of genetic-risk information, says Baker, who is hoping to model the new guidelines on her company's official standards of practice. She envisions that companies' adherence to the rules will serve as a "Good Housekeeping seal of approval" to help consumers identify the "quality players" in the field...
...pages of transcripts, then summarized it all in an orderly 256-page report that met the deadline set by Ronald Reagan. Led skillfully by former Secretary of State William Rogers, the 13-member group produced a document that Washington's Republican Senator Slade Gorton predicts will become a ''model for presidential commissions for years to come.'' It is a tribute to the openness of the commission's proceedings that few of the answers about Challenger came as a surprise. But the findings did not come easily. Although NASA had generally been cooperative with the commission, its Marshall Space Flight Center...