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...seconds tick away, and the buzzer sounds. The Harvard Fight Song echoes off of the columns of the ancient stadium...
...growing numbers of tourists, scholars, journalists, businesspeople and even senior officials crossing the Strait in both directions have enabled China to better understand what makes Taiwan tick. Now Beijing's strategy is more nuanced. That's partly tactical: the hard-line approach was driving people to the DPP. But it's also an effort to win Taiwan hearts and minds and to show that China, too, is more complex than a caricature of a totalitarian state...
...Cardinals, who suffered a heart-breaking Super Bowl loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, host the San Francisco 49ers in their 2009 opener. On the eve of the NFL season, Fitzgerald talked to TIME about Michael Vick, his fantasy football past and what exactly makes those diva wide receivers tick...
...sign of maturity. "Adolescents who engage in [risky] behaviors obtain more experience in a variety of domains," the authors write. "Their more conservative peers, in contrast, do not have as much 'life experience' and therefore might be expected to have more immature brains." (Read "What Makes Teens Tick...
...meantime, foreclosures and unemployment continue to tick up. According to RealtyTrac, an online foreclosure database, the number of properties receiving foreclosure notices in July totaled 360,149, up 7% from June and up 32% from the same month a year...