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Investors may be sensing a trap. Daily stock trades at Charles Schwab fell 9% in August. That month investors poured money into stocks globally but withdrew $4 billion more than they put into U.S.-focused mutual funds. The figures for September were expected to show only modest improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: The Uncertain Bull | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...appear loftlike and informal. Everything is organic (apart from the furniture?"I couldn't find anything stylish," he says), ranging from the naturally pigmented paint on the walls to the mineralized water to the terry-cloth robes made from organic cotton. Nevertheless, Jaulin has avoided the Zen music trap, dismissing it as "not very Paris" and opting instead for a mix of rhythm and blues played, sotto voce, over the speakers. "The point of this place is to experience well-being, lightness and joy, and I want the music to reflect that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beauty: The Fashionable Facial | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

Another new technique was also employed when the researchers used a cylindrical trap for the electrons, as opposed to a hyperbolic shaped...

Author: By Joyce Y. Zhang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Quantum Theory, A Jump | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...Italia are not the same thing," warns the writer. In Botticelli, who strove "to reconcile Plato and Christ in a representation of the beauty that derives from the union of spirit and matter," foreigners only see "flowers, sea and a girl surfing on a seashell. It's a trap. For 500 years, you've been falling into it, and we've been chuckling as we watch." When composing An Italian in Britain and Ciao, America!, his U.S. best seller, Severgnini was writing for Italians - translating them was an afterthought. "This time it was the other way around. Bella was written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Be Italian | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...Iraq, Paton, as an Army intelligence officer, will decide which roads are safe for troops to take and which could be a trap. The possibility that an improvised explosive device, a suicide bomber or an AK-47-wielding insurgent could kill him doesn't deter him. "There is fear. I wouldn't be human if I didn't think about that," he says. "Everyone thinks I'm just making this up, but my biggest fear and what keeps me up late at night is thinking that I screwed up and cost someone else their life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When The Candidate Goes to War | 8/17/2006 | See Source »

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