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...great gender divide for the sheer fun of it. In fact, she found the experience extremely painful. "Looking back on it now," she says, "I never would have done it if I had known what it really was. I had no idea that it would take this big a toll." She did it in order to write a book, Self-Made Man (Viking; 290 pages), about how the other half lives. Kind of like Maureen Dowd but with research...
...period team this season, in their attempt to avenge a home loss to UNH over a month ago. Before Wednesday, the Crimson had outscored its opponents 32-10 in the final frame. The exhaustive effort on the penalty kill and the mental lapses on defense, however, ultimately took their toll as UNH asserted itself and validated its new No. 1 spot. “I thought we did a pretty good job of defending the big sheet, which is difficult to do,” Stone said. “I was just disappointed in the last 20 minutes...
What sort of toll is all this disruption and mental channel switching taking on our ability to think clearly, work effectively and function as healthy human beings? Do the devices that make it possible to do so many things at once truly raise our productivity or merely help us spin our wheels faster? Over the past five years, psychologists, efficiency experts and information-technology researchers have begun to explore those questions in detail. They have begun to calculate the pluses, the minuses and the economic costs of the interrupted life--in dollars, productivity and dysfunction. More important, they're exploring...
...even as the war's economic toll worsens, there is some good news on the human front: the number of divorces in the Army declined in 2005, ending a four-year surge. According to Army data obtained by TIME that have not yet been officially released, there were 8,367 divorces in 2005, down from 10,477 in 2004. That number is still higher than the total before the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but officials, who concede that year-long deployments can strain marriages, are working on the issue. The Army has raised funding to $3.6 million a year...
...Numbers 63 Number of journalists killed last year, including 24 in Iraq and seven in the Philippines, for the highest global death toll since...