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...which becomes thinner and loses bone mineral over time; dental wear; and closure of the cranium. However, it's unlikely that IOC or FIG officials will go so far as to impose these types of biological tests on the Chinese gymnasts - especially since none of these methods can definitively pinpoint any of their ages as either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Science Tell a Gymnast's Age? | 8/23/2008 | See Source »

...precarious economy, finding the right solutions depends, in part, on understanding our workforce's diversity. One global consulting group is segmenting the marketplace to help workers of various stripes pinpoint products and services they most need. The same group is identifying opportunities to improve benefits at jobs that are least likely to be outsourced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Social Contract | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

Pilots know that weather causes about 40% of aircraft accidents and about 65% of air-traffic delays longer than 15 minutes. Thankfully, technology can defuse the threat. Doppler radar can predict and pinpoint rapid, dramatic shifts in wind by bouncing beacons off different air masses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING INTO TROUBLE | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

...aboard a ValuJet plane that burst into flames, smashed into the Florida Everglades and sank in a murky swamp to expose chronic weaknesses in the FAA. The 110 souls on that flight probably never knew what caused the fire that took their lives. At first, government investigators could not pinpoint the reason for the disaster, either. [It was later found that the fire was apparently caused by dangerous oxygen generators loaded into the cargo bay without being carefully handled according to regulations.] But the tragedy would expose what the FAA had long known: ValuJet was primed for a major crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING INTO TROUBLE | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

...summer when I was supposed to ignore these things? I keep waiting for a spasm of homesickness, when the violins trill, the clarinets wail, and I suddenly remember how much I miss home. But it never comes. And the most frustrating fact is that I can’t pinpoint what I like about the city. Maybe that’s part of the appeal...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc | Title: An American in D.C. | 7/11/2008 | See Source »

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