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...despite the technological advancements and added flavors, matzo still remains a food steeped in religious tradition. At Passover Seders, families retell the story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt, eat matzo plain and then with a fruit-and-nut concoction called haroseth that symbolizes the bricks and mortar the Jews had to prepare as slaves. Sometimes parents hide a piece of matzo - called the afikoman - and reward children with money or gifts if they find it. But when the eight days of Passover are over, it's back to the world of starchy carbohydrates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So You Think You Know Matzo? | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...While F&F had plenty in the tank, the week's other wide release, Adventureland, just plain tanked. It finished a sad sixth. Fewer than a million patrons paid to see Superbad director Greg Mottola's reminiscence of an '80s summer he spent working in an amusement park. Apparently most of those who wanted a reverberation of their Superbad vibe stayed home and watched star Seth Rogen, who ubiquitously promoted his next-week's movie, Observe and Report, on Letterman, The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live and quite possibly the Home Shopping Network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Box Office: Fast & Furious by a Mile | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

Economics for the Real World Obama has pledged that his bank-regulation overhaul would be based "not on abstract models ... but on actual data on how actual people make financial decisions." That's a plain-English way of saying it will be guided by behavioral economics, not neoclassical economics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Is Using the Science of Change | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...Reform of regulatory regimes. The crisis has made plain that the global economy is now so intertwined that a collapse of a financial institution in one country can have a knock-on effect around the world. The summiteers will discuss global regulation not just of conventional commercial banks, but also of other parts of the financial system like hedge funds - a key European demand. They probably won't get far - this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The G-20 Summit: Can This Group Save the World Economy? | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...duplicity at this particular juncture suggests, to some observers, an effort to put some pressure on Islamabad. "It seems like a prelude to a new strategy, which may include asking Pakistan to do something" in the province of Baluchistan, where the leadership of the Afghan Taliban is hiding in plain sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Pakistan Be Untangled from the Taliban? | 3/27/2009 | See Source »

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