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...Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series and the Nintendo Contra classics, is one of video-gaming's most storied cheats. During development of the 1985 Konami arcade game Gradius, a programmer found the game to be too difficult and programmed in a key sequence - up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A - that, if entered, gave the player a set of the game's power-ups. As word of the shortcut spread, other programmers aped his cheat, working the same sequence into their own games. The Konami code works in nearly 100 video games now, including Frogger and Dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook's Secret Code | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...works for Facebook. Try it for yourself - log in to Facebook and type the code: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, enter. It doesn't matter where you type it: just have the Facebook page open and active. The result? Lens flares - those groovy circles that appear when pointing a camera into the sun - appear on your page with every click of the mouse. Useful? Not in the slightest. But they're easy enough to get rid of - logout and they're gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook's Secret Code | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

Although not all experts are convinced that it's safe to begin advising women to add soy to their diet, they agree that there is no need to avoid soy altogether. "What I've been telling my patients right now is that soy as part of a healthy balanced diet is safe. But I would avoid trying to eat a totally soy-based diet or taking a soy supplement. You have to be careful in not extrapolating beyond the study," says Dr. Richard Lee, medical director of the Integrative Medicine Program at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Eating Soy Is Safe for Breast-Cancer Survivors | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...with energy), actively breaks down sugar into heat and consumes a lot more energy than white fat does. In other words, brown fat burns energy instead of storing it. However, researchers also known that while brown fat is abundant in rodents and newborns, who need it to keep warm right out of the womb, those brown-fat stores shrink and white fat emerges as people age. But now it seems that adults retain more brown fat than previously thought, in deposits in the front and back of the neck, according to a study by Swedish researchers, published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2009 | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...That's right, Ivygateblog.com—founded in 2006 and known for satirizing the good, the bad, and the ugly in the Ivy League—just made its first post in 19 days, an unusually long gap for a site that used to update frequently throughout each...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IvyGate Returns! | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

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