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Here's how the study worked: volunteers, Dutch university students, were randomly assigned to one of three experimental groups. Researchers "primed" each group at the outset - using a variety of psychological devices - to feel powerful, powerless or neutral. In one priming exercise, students were asked to form sentences using specific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Power Corrupt? Absolutely Not | 5/20/2008 | See Source »

Sex: it's a topic most political memoirists skate around. Not so Cherie, who even discusses the conception of her fourth child, Leo, during a trip to Balmoral, the Queen's Scottish retreat. On the Blairs' first visit to the castle, valets had unpacked Cherie's toiletries, including what she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cherie Blair Has Her Say | 5/13/2008 | See Source »

For most non-medical people, the term "apnea" is most familiar when coupled with the word "sleep," and refers to a dangerous condition in which people inadvertently stop breathing while asleep. But the word literally means a temporary cessation of breathing and it is practiced (on purpose) around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How David Blaine Held His Breath | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

In her story on Obama's "Bitter" comments, Tumulty refers to "downscale voters." Webster's defines downscale as "located or moving toward ... the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale." It would be interesting to know, in Tumulty's neo-élitist judgment, what constitutes a downscale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

In her story on Obama's "Bitter" comments, Tumulty refers to "downscale voters." Webster's defines downscale as "located or moving toward ... the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale." It would be interesting to know, in Tumulty's neo-élitist judgment, what constitutes a downscale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

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