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...appearance.) Last year's Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to three American scientists for their work in the field, and many scientists now believe that telomeres are the closest we may come to identifying a biological clock - and our best bet for learning how to stop or turn back that clock. (See portraits of centenarians...
...comes the turn of Thailand's Uruphong Raksasad. Applying the principles of reality TV to his homemade production, Uruphong engaged two scuffling farming families to work a plot of land he rented for them in his native Chiang Rai province, and filmed them. The end result - the ironically entitled Agrarian Utopia - is a poignant essay on lives of mounting debt and bug-catching subsistence, evoking eternal cycles of suffering that will seem stunningly fresh to urban audiences in Thailand and the region. See what we learned from a decade at the movies...
...easy to be told that your attitude needs to change, but that's the Greek government's message. Still, even as Greeks grapple with changing their lifestyles, the fact that they like to spend could turn out to be a blessing. "Greece is a poor country with rich people," says Sarantis. "It's a strange thing." He has a point. Despite the economic downturn, Golden Hall, a luxury mall in the capital that opened in 2008, was packed on a recent postholiday weekend, and the shelves in many of its 131 stores were bare. And when a popular singer, Michalis...
...edge of the cliff." Some Greek business leaders hope that the medicine, though bitter, will produce a healthier economy. "The crisis was inevitable," says Ioannis Kamatakis, CEO of MLS Multimedia, a technology company that produces GPS systems and translation software. "It represents a unique opportunity for Greece to turn the page...
...answer. With their Web site Prospect and Meeting, Kai Huang ’11 and Arune Gulati ’11 have created a site where student users can list five people they have crushes on, and then receive an e-mail if any of those five crushes in turn have crushes on them...