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...credit for trying something new. You will not. Your dessert will fall apart on the plate. The judges will pay lip service, but in the end, if it stinks, it stinks. If, like Carla Hall in Season 5, you can whip up an apple tart in your sleep, then by all means work it. But the human heart is not powerful enough to forgive a bum pudding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cooking with Gas | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...another reason to turn off the tube: the more TV time kids log, a study found, the higher their blood pressure is, regardless of weight--a spike not seen in connection with other sedentary behaviors like computer use. Researchers say the culprit may be showtime snacking, overstimulation and subsequent sleep loss, or exposure to junk-food commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...Hundreds like him are also still waiting outside Cishan's classrooms. "I couldn't sleep all week. I had no idea how my family is doing," says Chen Hsiu-lan, a farmer who was also stranded in the mountains for six days until an excavator cleared the roads enough for her to leave her home. Now she's waiting at the school for her older brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Week After Typhoon, Taiwan Rescues Continue | 8/15/2009 | See Source »

...babies are more imaginative and even more conscious than adults. They take in much more information from different sources than adults do and work very hard to make sense of that information. It's one reason we think babies sleep so much - they're doing much harder work than grown-ups are. They are the R&D department of the human species. (Read "Bringing Babies to Work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Look Inside Babies' Minds | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

...matter either way, then got out of the taxi and went off with him. He said that they spent a passionate night together and that he was very lucky because this woman had a very, very nice house (electricity and running water) and a comfortable bed to sleep in. The next morning, he paid her 12,000CFA as a gesture of thanks. Did I mention that this man is married and has four children? And that said wife knows very well of these exploits...

Author: By James A. Mcfadden | Title: Africa is for Lovers | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

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