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Facebook and MySpace users may want to think twice before posting their birth dates on their online profiles. According to a recent study published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, information as basic as this can be used to pinpoint a person's Social Security number in as few as 10 tries...
Defining the parameters of this new normal is not something that can be done with pinpoint precision. I started paying attention to the news (and subscribing to Time) during another period of economic turmoil, the late 1970s, and soon became convinced that I would never know a world in which gas was affordable, inflation wasn't in double digits and jobs were anything but scarce. Then the 1980s and '90s happened. So there is a danger in extrapolating present conditions to the future--and the U.S. economy has a wonderful penchant for surprising us all to the upside. But here...
Practically speaking, that means researchers may be able to pinpoint specific early risk factors to help identify kids who are vulnerable to developing anorexia - much the same way specialists can now recognize signs of autism as early as 12 months. "We are where autism was 20 years ago. There were the same discussions about the mother causing kids to be autistic, and most of the theory and treatment was based on that," says Kaye, referring to the outdated notion that autism was caused by cold, neglectful "refrigerator" mothers. "I think that anorexia is as biological as autism. It's just...
...Defining the parameters of this new normal is not something that can be done with pinpoint precision. I started paying attention to the news (and subscribing to TIME) during another period of economic turmoil, the late 1970s, and soon became convinced that I would never know a world in which gas was affordable, inflation wasn't in double digits and jobs were anything but scarce. Then the 1980s and '90s happened. So there is a danger in extrapolating present conditions to the future - and the U.S. economy has a wonderful penchant for surprising us all to the upside...
...that, there's nothing better than human intelligence. Reports from Waziristan suggest the CIA has access to a network of spies. Tribesmen have told TIME of agents who drop microchips (locally known as patrai) near targets; the drones can lock onto these to guide their missiles or bombs with pinpoint precision. But it has proved difficult to verify these claims of human assets and their homing chips...