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...presumes, turn on his conviction that if his nation of 21 million people is to confront the triple challenge of recession, climate change and a rapidly changing cultural identity, it must in turn recognize a triple reality - that the modern world is interconnected, that each country's challenges are similar and that they can only be tackled by nations acting in unison, not in isolation...
This fall the company will expand its lineup to include precision underpants. Yes, go ahead and reread that. Chung said the underpants will feature similar compression technology, which sounds kind of painful. But fear not, she assured me. They are designed to keep men comfortable and keep their precision parts cooler. "That area of a man is meant to be 1º colder than the rest of the body to optimize fertility," she said. Fertility is not my problem, I said. "It'll also give you a perkier rear end," she said. I agreed to test a sample in September...
...states as the government seemingly turns a blind eye. "The government is also trying to hijack the campaign and trying to present itself as patriotic in defense of Egyptians abroad," says journalist Hamalawy. "What do they do for the Egyptians who are in the gulf and who actually face similar treatment, if not worse...
While funding is flowing quickly to new studies similar to McLaughlin and Allaire's - the nonprofit Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, for example, has pledged $8.5 million to study the impact of video games on everything from Alzheimer's disease to driving skills - there is little existing evidence that gaming, which is widely dismissed as an elaborate form of mind rot, really holds any potential to slow the effects of aging. "I think it is silly for someone to run out and buy a game with the hope that it is going to help them age better. There is no proof...
Skeptics of such products say these claims are about as credible as a slicer-dicer infomercial. But others point to video-game research that suggests digital diversions have many advantages over similar analog training tools. "Video games are very integrative in nature. You have to multitask a lot," says Chandramallika Basak, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. In the PC-based game Rise of Nations, on which Basak published a paper last year in Psychology and Aging, multitasking involves managing an empire with multiple cities and simultaneously defending one locale from attack while reviving...