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...Little Bit Longer, it's that the Jonases seem a little bit too comfortable making comfortable music. No one still harbors any illusions that rock musicians need to upset generational harmony, but the songs slot so neatly into the late-'70s template set by the Cars and Cheap Trick--and the Jonases are still so young--that it's easy to wonder if they're performing their own taste or that of their dad, who is also their co-manager. This may explain the presence of some weird banter at the beginning of songs and a few theatrically odd phrasings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jonas Brothers Grow Up | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...most famous trick at Athens was by a couple of medal winners, who had plastic bags filled other people's clean urine inserted into the rectum, and a plastic tube that was fixed and hung beneath the penis. So when the athletes gave urine tests, the urine did not come from the body, but instead from this plastic outlet. People did this for years and years - and still do. It was known about. Women would insert bags into their vaginas. Then in Athens, when some athletes were asked for a bit more urine to analyze in future years, the system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Clean Athletes Have a Chance? | 8/20/2008 | See Source »

...Konrad A. Hochedlinger, a Medical School professor whose laboratory contributed the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome cell line to the project, said that the "iPS trick" will change the face of stem cell research...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Create Disease-Specific Cell Lines | 8/18/2008 | See Source »

...Losers Many in Macau have benefited from the flood tide of investment and tourism dollars, of course. But the gains haven't been spread evenly and some worry that Macau - which once had a manufacturing sector to balance tourism as a source of jobs - has become a one-trick economy that is dangerously reliant on the gaming industry. Gambling taxes now account for three-quarters of the government's revenues. The industry has grown so rapidly, it is even stunting the development of other sectors by vacuuming up the best talent. Says Lawrence Ho, CEO of Melco Crown Entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Split Personality | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...superior to their target voters, says Barker, but not remote or filthy rich. "You mustn't be too ordinary," he says. "Go to Southwold, but don't queue for fish and chips like everyone else. That cultivation of distance and similarity at the same time, that's the difficult trick." And above all, don't have too much fun. According to a recent survey for British tour operator Thomas Cook, two-thirds of Britons feel jealous about other people's holidays. Taking a break from politics is one thing, says Barker, "so long as [politicians] don't seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reading Into Leaders' Vacation Spots | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

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