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...We’re sitting pretty right now,” Schell said at the time. “We’re finally getting into our stride. We train twice a day. We drink at least half a keg of root beer on weekends...

Author: By James Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pong Participants Soberly Seek Glory | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...talk about that very much. I didn’t want to scare my audience away by telling them “all this entails accepting sex clubs.” But in the end I do that because I think that’s what accepting the right of sexual choice entails...

Author: By Jose A. Delreal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Martha Nussbaum | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

Liane L. Young ’04, one of the co-authors of the report, sees these results as possible evidence for a biological account of the way we determine right and wrong. “Morality could be decomposed into these specific neural and cognitive processes,” she said, referring to intention versus outcome...

Author: By Victoria J. Benjamin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Of Morals And Magnets | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...this way: "I could ask you to solve a third-order linear partial differential equation," he says. "A what?" I ask. "A third-order linear partial differential equation," he says. "I could offer you a million dollars to solve it. And you can't do it." (He's right. I can't.) For some kids, doing better on a geometry test is like solving a third-order linear partial differential equation, no matter the incentive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Kids Be Bribed to Do Well in School? | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...Afghanistan. "I'm this way about the health care bill," says Anna Porto, 80, a retired clerk, wagging her index and middle fingers in opposite directions. "I like that it helps the uninsured, but I don't like that we're paying for it. We can't afford it right now - we can't afford anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Care and the Democrat Who Voted No | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

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