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...information, their decisions are often good ones. Though previous research examining perceived CEO personality and firm performance found few links between the two, Ambady and Rule point out that those studies relied on surveys of people who knew the executives. In the new paper, the authors write, "These finding suggest that naïve judgments may provide more accurate assessments of individuals than well-informed judgments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Looks Predict a Successful CEO? | 1/11/2008 | See Source »

...around really means, however, is that at the ballot box we’ll be forced to choose between two equally shallow cardboard cutouts. What we need is a candidate with fire and drive, somebody respectful of America’s ideals and seasoned politically, yet bold enough to suggest drastic reform if the case calls for it. We’re not going to get that kind of candidate this election. Most current contenders can be classified under the soothing moniker of “moderate”; indeed, one reason Ron Paul’s extreme views have...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: Cry, The Beloved Country | 1/11/2008 | See Source »

Taken together, the hothouse glaciers and the sickly dinosaurs suggest a conclusion that should serve nicely as the new conventional wisdom about the paleontological past: Don't take conventional wisdom too seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Insects Kill the Dinosaurs? | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

...certainly be concerned if our vehicle created absolute chaos all across India," he told one questioner who complained that his morning journey of a few miles across Delhi took over an hour. "But if you had chaos today and it did not include our vehicles, then I would suggest the problem has to do with something else besides the presence or absence of our vehicles." India, he agreed, "does desperately need mass transit systems... both within cities and between cities." But poor Indian families also have a right to what millions take for granted elsewhere in the world. "Should they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Cheapest Car | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

Your nose is one of the less complicated parts of your body, and yet we credit it with considerable intelligence in the area of truth vs. falsehood. We "sniff out a lie." We say "something smells fishy." Now studies suggest that something more than metaphor may be at work here--specifically, brain science. The same research may also shed unexpected light on religious faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Nose, My Brain, My Faith | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

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