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This minimize-the-load strategy operates in other places beyond the racetrack. We adopt it intuitively when we're carrying a heavy load and find ourselves maintaining an even, almost level gait, thus reducing the up and down motion that makes a bundle seem to weigh more on every downward bounce. Spence suggests that the same concept could be applied to improve the performance of artificial legs. "It's not crazy to say you'd be able to use this to build better prosthetic limbs for people. If you're trying to build a prosthetic limb to handle a bumpy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets of Jockeying: Why Horses Go Fast | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...would seem that being honest is an absolute, undebatable state. A person is either truthful or he's not. Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The fMRI Brain Scan: A Better Lie Detector? | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...Dead End Severe punishment. Even tighter control over the lives of Uighurs. Those seem to be the only policies Beijing is willing to contemplate. Yet this strategy has left Uighurs feeling trapped and desperate, says Alim Seytoff, a WUC spokesman: "If we speak up, we get killed. If we don't speak up, we will be wiped out." Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher for New York City - based Human Rights Watch, says that a sense of helplessness - and hopelessness - drives the Uighurs to demonstrate: "They knew the terrible consequences of protesting for themselves and their families and yet they went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's War in the West | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...studying journalism. "But there aren't any jobs in that, so I'll probably just stay in school longer and get another degree," she says. The prospect of owning a home - and the mortgage that comes with it - makes all four girls laugh, so far-fetched does it seem. "How am I going to get a mortgage if I can't even get a job?" scoffs Rodríguez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Broken Hopes of a Spanish Generation | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...recently appeared as part of a Daily Show segment that treated the paper as a comical anachronism. How do you respond to those who seem eager for newspapers to die out? Tommy Giglio, CHICAGO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Bill Keller | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

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