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EIGHT IS ENOUGH On average, couples whose first marriages didn't last got separated within seven years and divorced within eight. Second unions likewise ended in divorce after seven years for women and fewer than nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dashboard: Oct. 8, 2007 | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

Although I love being around him, I find almost all of Wansink's results depressing. Apparently, I'll eat more M&Ms if they're in 10 colors rather than seven because I'll crave the variety. And unless I'm a real foodie, or French, flowers at my table will make me eat more, even though they clash with the smells of my meal, making it less appealing. Maybe I should just give up and gnaw on soy bars all day. But Wansink doesn't see it that way. He figures there are plenty of meals where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taste Tests | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

That is precisely what he accomplishes the afternoon we arrive at a school choir competition and find seven girls laid out on the sidewalk. A school van had rolled backward into an underground garage, hitting some girls standing there and injuring others inside the vehicle. Rodrigues and his partner go to work, sidelining the five girls with minor injuries and moving quickly to the pair with possible fractures. The medics pull moldable splints from their backpacks and strap them to the young legs. Then they phone in to request an additional ambulance to back up the one that has already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Brazil | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...pushing the conventions of pop music to their outer limits. In large part, that achievement comes because the band never yokes their primal instincts, choosing raw emotive power over restraint in their songs. That’s led to a disparate discography, consisting of eight full-length discs in seven years. As soon as an album’s done, a new batch of songs suddenly crops up, sui generis. Wandering souls can’t sit still, and so the band never encounters their own boundaries because such boundaries don’t exist. But “Strawberry...

Author: By Evan L. Hanlon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Animal Collective | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

There are three Patriot games (starring Harrison Ford) on the Ivy schedule tomorrow and seven more, including Lafayette’s visit to Harvard Stadium and a Yale-Lehigh showdown, still to come...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Big Week For Ivy, Patriot Leagues | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

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