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...women avoid dating bad boyfriends? Davilman: My belief is that people tell you who they are in the first five minutes. Most people have expectations and needs and an idea of how they want their life to be, and they will only hear what they want to hear to make someone else fit into their idea. Sometimes you go through this entire relationship only to find out that you should have paid attention to the person they told you they were in the first place. You ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes a Bad Boyfriend? | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...Helling's warning. It was far easier and financially prudent to ignore the issue, to assume that Helling was an alarmist prone to exaggerating, and to make sure everyone involved knew as little as possible about players injecting hard-core steroids into their asses. Don't ask, don't tell and don't care was the unwritten code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Warned Baseball About Steroids | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...American shopper is dazed and confused. What do I really want, versus what do I really need? Sure, I can afford the plasma television now, but should I save that $2,000, in case I get laid off tomorrow? Can I really tell my snobby friends that I now shop at - egads - Walmart? To gauge the mindset of the American consumer, and the state of shopping during this recession, TIME checked in with respected retail expert Paco Underhill, the CEO of Envirosell, a consulting firm, and author of Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Consumers Shop Differently Today | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...unrealistic demand.“Everything” will have to advance before such data can be processed, Sanes says. More powerful computers will need to be used, as well as perhaps some way of mathematically modeling the data.“You’d like us to tell you what this means for consciousness or for uncovering how diseases act in the brain, but we are far from that,” Sanes says. In the meantime, Sanes has a more modest goal: mapping only the neural passageways from the eyes to the brain, carefully matching...

Author: By Paul C. Mathis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Unraveling Nerves, Understanding the Brain | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...German Foreign Minister's trip to Iraq came just a week after French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Baghdad. "My coming here is to tell French companies: the time has come. Come and invest!" Sarkozy declared, explaining to his host, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, how French investment would be mutually beneficial. "We seek cooperation in the economic field, energy, rebuilding, and to help the police, security and Iraqi military forces, as well as restoring the international position of Iraq," Sarkozy promised. "We want to encourage all European countries to come. It is in Europe's interest to extend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europeans Who Sat Out the Iraq War Now Line Up for Its Business | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

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