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...abuses are turning out to be so prevalent that regulatory officials predict a big shake-out. "There are going to be criminal cases brought in considerable number down the road," Spitzer told TIME. "It's not one or two bad apples. The whole crate seems to have gone rotten...
Ever wonder why you feel so physically rotten when your date doesn't call the next day? It turns out that it's your brain rather than your heart that takes snubbing the hardest. Researchers at UCLA and Macquarie University in Australia have shown that physical pain and the more psychological pain of rejection are processed by the same areas of the brain. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, which records an active brain at work, they tracked college students as they played a three-person computer game designed to exclude one player. When a student was snubbed, two areas...
...spanned a rotten century,” remarks Daniels...
...RFID reader emits a radio wave to scan the chip via an attached antenna. Unlike bar codes, which have to be scanned one at a time, an RFID reader can theoretically scan every item in a shopping basket, case or pallet--at one glance, at a distance, even in rotten conditions like inside a freezer or in a sandstorm. Place an RFID reader in a series of gateways, and it can follow supplies from assembly line to store shelves and right out the door with the customer...
Jack and Joe both lose their jobs and their girlfriends. Rotten luck. Then their 401(k)s tank, and their dogs get run over. Argh. But while Jack spirals into despair, Joe takes his losses and eventually bounces back. How do you explain the difference? Depression may seem to be a matter of who's made of sterner stuff, but a new study shows that genes play an important role. Researchers have found that individuals with the short version of a particular gene involved in the production of a key brain chemical are more than twice as likely...