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...coming by." I turned, I got my hand on the knob of the door. I only know that because the police said there was blood on the inside of the doorjamb. Within that second, she pulled a gun out, aimed it at my head and pulled the trigger. The next thing I knew, it was three days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mary Jo Buttafuoco: Life After Amy Fisher | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

...Next up for Ingalls' house in upstate New York: more floor work in the foyer, as well as granite-topped counters in the kitchen. That means another trip back to Craigslist. "There's no reason to think that I won't get the same results I did the first time," he says. "Approaching a project in this way and in this economy definitely tips the scales in a consumer's favor. And I'm more than happy to take advantage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tables Turned: Contractors Now at Homeowners' Mercy | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

...PNAS study found that by swaying from one flexible tree branch to the next, orangutans actually use less energy than they would if they leaped from branch to branch, or if they climbed down trees, moved on the ground and climbed back up again. (The fact that the Sumatran tiger - before it became critically endangered - was a serious threat to the orangutan probably helped encourage tree travel.) Climbing helps the orangutan adapt neatly to its arboreal environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Tarzan, Orangutans Glide Through Trees | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

...congressional lawmakers scramble to find ways to pay for health-reform legislation that could cost upwards of $1 trillion over the next decade, there is probably no funding method more unpopular with the American public than taxing health benefits. Employers have been providing tax-free insurance to workers since World War II, when federally mandated wage freezes led to a bonanza in this form of nonsalary compensation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxing Pricey Insurance: No Health-Care Cure | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

...figure that is projected to rise to 34% by 2020. The same looming problem faces China as a whole, says Wang, who points out that the number of young people entering the workforce between the ages of 20 and 24 will drop by half in the next decade. Like many other population experts outside China, Wang believes it is only a matter of time before the pressure to change the one-child policy is irresistible. "The government should eliminate the moral barrier that's been imposed by propaganda over the past 30 years for a couple to have a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is China's One-Child Policy Heading for a Revision? | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

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