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...After leaving the Pentagon, McNamara spent 13 years tackling global poverty as the World Bank's president, exhibiting his characteristic devotion and confidence but delivering mixed results. He became heavily involved with efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation, and he spoke and traveled widely in his later life denouncing America's role and his own role in Vietnam. He even wrote a memoir indicting American policy in Vietnam and was featured in the acclaimed documentary...
...believe the recovery will be very substantial, and therefore it's hard to say the worst is behind us. A lot will depend on how consumers behave. Consumers have been saving and not spending, and the absence of a big surge of this spending is what will prevent the recovery from being robust. In addition, in so many industries there is overcapacity. More firms are selling cars than there is a demand for cars, so somehow that overcapacity will have to be eliminated...
...brains of live patients - a leap forward in a field that long had to rely on postmortem analyses of brain tissue to confirm diagnoses after the fact - and showed that some 21% of patients with physical signs of dementia suffered no outward symptoms of cognitive impairment. (See how to prevent illness...
...this cellular efficiency, perhaps, that delays aging and helps preserve animals' good health. The findings suggest that rapamycin does not affect or prevent any one disease specifically - the mice in the study died of various causes, with no real difference between mice that received rapamycin and those that didn't - but rather that it slows aging overall. (Read a TIME cover story on the science of aging...
...this effect - called cognitive dissonance in official terms - a team including psychologist Joel Cooper of Princeton asked participants to write hard-hearted essays opposing funding for the disabled. When these participants were later told they were compassionate, they felt even worse about what they had written. (See how to prevent illness...