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Your story on epigenetics was interesting and even encouraging. I imagine many existing and prospective parents may be remorsefully contemplating their lifestyles before they faced the sobering business of parenthood. I know I would. And I wouldn't consider having children based on my past lifestyles and your article. All...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yemen: The New New Frontier | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

The cliché that sport imitates life is a stretch. But sport does reveal what makes a winner. Above everything else - talent, training, luck - it's tenacity, like that shown at the Australian Open by tennis players Li Na and Zheng Jie. They made history by being the first Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

Big China Books vary greatly in quality, but even the best leave me cold due to their bird's-eye view of the P.R.C. Adopting an Olympian perspective, their authors tend to use broad strokes to portray things that actually require a fine-grained touch. For example, most treat China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big China Books: Enough of the Big Picture | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

What made the study possible in the first place was the fact that pretty much none of the forest in this part of the U.S. is virgin; it's been cleared for agriculture at various times, and then allowed to regrow in patches. The result: individual stands of similar trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Eastern Trees in the Midst of a Growth Spurt | 2/6/2010 | See Source »

In downtown Los Angeles, just east of Little Tokyo, one of the only active construction sites is a 53-unit apartment building at Alameda and 4th Street. Valentin Marquez, 41, father of four, does foundation and concrete work. Before this job he says he was out of work for a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Recession: Will Construction Workers Survive? | 2/6/2010 | See Source »

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