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...diet reduced the saturated and trans fats they consumed by more than 1 g a day. Turns out the people who wanted to increase their fruit-and-vegetable intake were among the healthiest to start with, but even they bumped up their consumption of those foods by about a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Fat? Read Your E-Mail | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...LinkedIn and Twitter pals - wherever you are. The problem is that all these data streams are increasingly hard to manage. I have one contact list of my friends and family on my iPhone; I can also switch to a directory of work associates. But then I've got a third list of friends at Facebook and yet another on LinkedIn. The promise of the Pre's WebOS is that it can take all those feeds and wirelessly combine them into one comprehensive contact list, without duplicates. On the Pre, this is known as Synergy, and it already works with contacts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pre: Palm's Plot to Take on the iPhone | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...Ross's view, is the state of Iran's economy. Though it sits on the world's third largest reserves of oil, Iran faces a growing economic crisis. The government is dependent on oil exports for 85% of its revenue, but Iran's aging production capacity is diminishing by about 500,000 bbl. per year, according to some analyses. What oil it can produce, it has little ability to refine, importing as much as 50% of its gasoline. In 2007, Iran imposed gas-rationing, which set off riots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the U.S. Contain Iran's Nuclear Ambitions? | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

Finance scholars also bolted a third plank onto Smith's two reasons this was so and would continue to be: stocks were riskier than bonds, and stock investors were thus being paid a premium for taking on that additional risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Stocks Still Good for the Long Run? | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...crowded lifeboat in the North Atlantic after the Titanic sank in 1912. Dean's 2-year-old brother was discovered aboard the rescue ship Carpathia, and the family--minus Dean's father, who drowned--returned safely to England. They were fortunate. Most of the children traveling in third class died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Millvina Dean | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

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