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Young lovebirds can be ingenious, particularly those for whom privacy is in short supply. No big shock to readers of Manil Suri's new novel The Age of Shiva, then, to find hormonal Delhiites Meera Sawhney, 17, and hunky songster Dev Arora, not much older, on the floor of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Long Story | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

There aren't any," says the hotelier with an embarrassed laugh when I ask about the best tourist attractions in Burma's new capital. That's no surprise, really. Naypyidaw--the name translates as "Abode of Kings"--was built from scratch just three years ago on orders from the ruling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Naypyidaw | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

Nearly as unlikely as the Wii's world-beating success is that of the man behind it. A self-professed doodler from a rural town outside Kyoto, Miyamoto once dreamed of becoming a puppeteer, which may help explain the leisurely five years he spent earning his degree in industrial design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shigeru Miyamoto: The Wizard of Wii | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

If they are, it's possible that once rampant diseases such as measles, mumps and whooping cough will storm back, even in developed nations with robust public-health programs. That is forcing both policymakers and parents to wrestle with a dilemma that goes to the heart of democracy: whether the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Safe Are Vaccines? | 5/21/2008 | See Source »

It's no surprise that you're more likely to light up if your close friends do. But Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School and James Fowler at University of California San Diego report that quitting smoking may be contagious as well. Even people who don't necessarily know each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quitting Smoking Is Contagious | 5/21/2008 | See Source »

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