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More than a year after the start of the credit crisis, financial firms seem far from fit. And that has some analysts and strategists worried that the economic recovery that most people assume is under way will be slower than expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bank Earnings: Economic Woes Persist | 1/20/2010 | See Source »

...first blush, those odds might seem to cast doubt on a genetic link. After all, previous studies have shown that among unrelated folks, those with migraines are four times as likely to get depression as those without migraines, while this new Dutch study shows that closely related people aren't even twice as likely to share both conditions. But Terwindt says that's the wrong comparison to make. She says her team used a much stricter definition of migraine than usual, and still found a positive association between that condition and depression, which serves to support rather than contradict previous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Genetic Link Between Migraines and Depression? | 1/20/2010 | See Source »

Sociologists refer to the phenomenon of people marrying people who are like them as homogamy. Doctors don't marry nurses anymore. They marry other doctors. And the nurses? Well, let's just say they don't seem too keen these days on the orderlies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marriage: Husbands Get Richer, Bachelors Get Screwed | 1/20/2010 | See Source »

Avoid Moganshan during the so-called Golden Week holidays like Chinese New Year and National Day (Oct. 1), when tourists flock in by the busload. But for much of the rest of the time, the hills seem still half-forgotten, and it is possible to hike through the bamboo forests (every bamboo marked with the name of the family entitled to harvest it) for hours without meeting another soul. The air is clean, stars are visible in their spangled glory at night, and in the fall and winter a roaring fire in a potbellied stove is complete bliss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Run to the Moganshan Hills | 1/20/2010 | See Source »

...tourist, that an old man stopped you in the street just to say hello? In a time of overnight city breaks and sequestered spa retreats, shaking hands with old-timers in straw hats with names like Joao Baptista (who turns out to be the local historian) may seem like a simple pleasure, but it is an increasingly rare one. Then again, Ibo Island in the Indian Ocean off northern Mozambique is a very rare place. (See pictures of luxury private islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Time You're in ... Mozambique | 1/20/2010 | See Source »

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