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In the 1980s, for example, the USGS partnered with the state of California to study a particularly unstable stretch of the San Andreas fault near the town of Parkfield. Quakes had been occurring in the area every 20 to 25 years or so. The previous one had been in 1966...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could the Haiti Earthquake Have Been Predicted? | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

Motivating people by dangling money in front of them doesn't always work. Nor do a host of other traditional business incentives. Instead, argues Daniel Pink, an author who worked as a speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore, people are often fueled by intrinsic motivations - like the simple desire to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Guru Daniel Pink on What Fuels Good Work | 1/12/2010 | See Source »

Nor are jewels, body paint and burials the only evidence for Neanderthal ingenuity. Several years ago, German scientists published a study saying that Neanderthals were manufacturing tarlike pitch out of tree resins, which they then used to affix stone points to wooden shafts. "This isn't an easy thing to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Did the Well-Dressed Neanderthal Wear? Jewelry | 1/12/2010 | See Source »

Yet neither Hybels' sermon, nor his 23,400-person congregation, is as white as he is. Along with Jesus, he invoked Martin Luther King Jr. Then he introduced Shawn Christopher, a former backup singer for Chaka Khan, who offered a powerhouse rendition of "We Shall Overcome." As the music swelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Megachurches Bridge the Racial Divide? | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

The state-sponsored press has reinforced efforts to deflect criticism for Egypt's Gaza policies by appealing to nationalist sympathies, focusing on the killing of the Egyptian soldier during last week's clashes, and on Hamas extremism. Last weekend's opinion pages were flooded with vitriolic rants against Hamas that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Siege of Gaza, Egypt Walks a Delicate Line | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

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