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Zillionaire industrialist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is a man without a heart--until he has to create a device to protect his own. Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) has a sweet gawkiness about him--until he gets behind a wheel. Not only do these heroes find the answers from within themselves, but they also build the solutions into themselves. The technology they create and maneuver helps them win because it's intrinsic: it's their heart, their brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iron Man, Speed Racer and the Future | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...very appealing notion that genetic discrimination is unfair looks especially odd in the context of insurance. The idea of insurance is to protect against the unexpected or unlikely. Forbidding insurers to take predictable risks into account when choosing whom to insure and how much to charge is asking them to behave irrationally and make bets they are sure to lose. Not insuring people who are likely to get cancer, or charging them more, isn't evil. It's rational behavior. Of course, we outlaw a lot of behavior that would be rational if it weren't against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetic Discrimination: Unfair or Natural? | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

That means that those with the lowest cognitive abilities are most likely to lose it if they don't use it, and also most likely to protect themselves from dementia and other cognitive problems by keeping their brain circuits active. Not surprisingly, the jobs that proved most beneficial to these folks include the higher degree professions such as law, medicine and journalism, but any career that required multi-tasking, organizing and managerial skill also boosted cognitive abilities later in life. "Any job that requires you to keep fresh, whether it is new sales techniques or learning about new products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxing Jobs Pay Off in the End | 5/5/2008 | See Source »

...government ordered about 1,000 tons of raw milk poured down the drain and dairy cows slaughtered to prop up prices and defend local milk farmers. Dairy prices were then managed to retain their advantage to imported milk and butter, whose prices were inflated by tariffs. (To protect domestic butter, the tax on imported butter went up twice last year. There is a nearly 30% tariff on butter imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Butter Meltdown | 5/3/2008 | See Source »

...youngest, may have the best chances of living a normal life. Kepplinger said the boy was a "very affectionate, bright child," who sticks close to his mother's side. The family is being given legal advice about the possibility of changing identities. The clinic itself is being guarded to protect their privacy. For now it is perhaps the simple things that may help to sustain them. On Sunday, 12-year-old Alexander, who lived upstairs, celebrated his birthday with an impromptu party and a cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Children of the Cellar | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

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