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The volunteers were outfitted with electrode caps - akin to a white shower cap with a jungle of wires sticking out of it - that tracked their brain waves in order to determine their stage of slumber. Using an electroencephalogram (EEG), investigators monitored the sleepers' brain activity, and just when the squiggly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Boost Your Memory? Try Sleeping on It | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

He and the other children in the study will be followed by researchers for several years. In addition, Rogers and Dawson have begun an expanded version of the study involving 120 toddlers at the three sites. It's one of a number of trials involving very young children that should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Evidence That Early Therapy Helps Autistic Kids | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

Standing in their uniform miniskirts and stilettos, three young women bend over ironing boards, pressing men's shirts before a live studio audience. They're competing to be schedine, young women who dance a little, wear little and say little on Quelli Che ... Il Calcio (Football Fans), a popular Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Silvio Berlusconi Uses Women on TV | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

There's nothing new about breasts, thighs and silliness on Italian TV. They have bedazzled viewers since the 1980s, when the television stations of Silvio Berlusconi, a mere media mogul before entering politics, revolutionized the airwaves by putting Italians on a diet of American soap operas, football and sex all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Silvio Berlusconi Uses Women on TV | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

Reagan and Diplomacy Ratnesar is generous in crediting Reagan, as a champion of diplomacy [Nov. 9]. Other one-liners were not quite so diplomatic. In 1984, Reagan said, "We begin bombing in five minutes," over a microphone he thought had been turned off. For some, this supposed joke is an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Net Loss | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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