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The oldest hangover remedy is to simply keep drinking. The "hair of the dog" method of self-medication has been around since alcohol was invented, although the canine-related term is actually British (it refers to an old folk remedy for a rabid dog bite). Dean Martin recommended it. So...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hangovers | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

• Though he sometimes refers to himself as a Mexican American, his family has farmed and ranched on land that is now New Mexico and Colorado since the 16th century.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interior Secretary: Ken Salazar | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

This, of course, refers to Obama's choice of Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as the new Secretary of Energy. Obama formally introduced Chu at a press conference on Monday in Chicago; in addition to Chu, Obama named Lisa Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Hopes for Obama's Green Dream Team | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

Alternative means of trade often surface during tough economic times. "When money gets dried up and there are still needs to be met in society, people come up with creative ways to meet those needs," says Peter North, a senior lecturer in geography at the University of Liverpool and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alternative Currencies Grow in Popularity | 12/14/2008 | See Source »

There was common agreement, especially among the young, that Robert Wise's The Day the Earth Stood Still was a really neat movie. And so it remains, for a lot of reasons: its timing, at the onset of the atomic age and the cold war; the clear identification of Klaatu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day the Earth Stood Still: Alienating | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

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