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Falk and the others identified seven specific features of Flo's brain that seem to be more-evolved versions of key characteristics of the much older A. africanus brain. "Over the entire cerebral cortex, there are advanced features that make it look like a very fancy brain," says Falk. "H...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hobbit: Out of Africa | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

Like many of his allies, Cheney insists that methods like waterboarding or sleep deprivation are an essential tool needed to pry vital intelligence from terrorists who otherwise refused to cooperate with their captors. Last month he said "the enhanced interrogation program" stopped "a great many" 9/11-like attacks. "I've seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Waterboarding Prevent Terrorism Attacks? | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

At first, the Treasury Department said it might not release the specific bank results. Observers assumed that Treasury officials were nervous that if a bank failed the test customers and investors would flee. But in the past few weeks the Obama Administration has started to believe that the market is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stress-Test Results: Most Banks Likely to Pass | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

The most significant risk in replacing the current bank CEOs is that the new people coming in may or may not be better selections than the people whom they replace. In many quarters this is considered a sort of governance recidivism. But, that does not mean that the argument is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Favor of Not Firing Bank CEOs | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

The OLC memos describe, in sterile, bureaucratic language that evokes Orwell’s 1984, the brutal treatment of “high value detainees” at the hands of American interrogators. In contrast to previous statements by Bush officials in which specific forms of interrogation were never discussed...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Renouncing Torture | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

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