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...gimmick is that Beth, having seen Nick with another woman at the wedding reception, gets squiffed and wanders outside to a Fontana de Amore, where local legend instructs visitors to wish for love by throwing a coin in the water. Graybeards will recall Rome's Fountain of Trevi as the romantic trigger for the plot of the 1954 Three Coins in the Fountain; Hilary Duff honored the tradition in The Lizzie McGuire Movie back in 2003. When in Rome invents a corollary legend: that if you remove a coin from the fountain, the person who put it there will instantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When in Rome: When Not Quite Awful May Have to Do | 1/30/2010 | See Source »

...beach ball). Then they got a few minutes' rest, before being rolled into the magnet for another scan. The experiment was repeated with pairs of new faces and scenes. Afterward, the participants took a pop quiz to measure their recognition of the faces, objects and scenes they had previously seen. (See how to prevent illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Studies: An Idle Brain May Be Ripe for Learning | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

...Marshall Plan for Haiti that tackles problems comprehensively and allows the rebuilding of both physical and public institutions. As citizens, we must not forget that our government’s budget ought to reflect our priorities, and the outpouring of donation and support for Haiti should be seen as a reflection of Americans’ political willingness to support reconstruction. As political agents, we must ensure that our government is held accountable, and that for once Haiti be supported by the international community in an enduring...

Author: By Michael Henderson and Krishna Prabhu | Title: Harvard for Haiti | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

...mandate system would also be unlikely to reduce costs in the healthcare bureaucracy. In fact, the mandate has been shown to sharply increase the number of payers in the system, which artificially drives up demand and prices, as seen by the rising individual costs of Massachusetts healthcare under the state’s current universal plan. Since that reform passed, health insurers have raised premiums between 7-12 percent, greater than the national average of 5-7 percent increases. This makes Massachusetts the state with the highest average family healthcare plans, $13,788 per year, despite the carefully crafted reform...

Author: By James L. Wu | Title: Obamacare Good for Us? | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

Both Cornell and Harvard are having phenomenal seasons that have seen them knock off big programs while receiving votes multiple times in the national polls. The Crimson (13-3, 2-0 Ivy) has impressive wins over Boston College and William & Mary, while the Big Red (16-3, 2-0) has taken down Alabama and St. John’s. But it may have been in their losses in which the two teams have been the most impressive. Cornell led then-No.1 Kansas for most of their game before eventually falling by five, while Harvard hung tough with then...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Trip Has Harvard in Empire State of Mind | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

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