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...delicious pralines she made. When I went to speak to the maid, she [remembered] working for this woman when [civil rights activist] Medgar Evers had just been assassinated. Her children were walking down the street in a protest and she was so afraid her employer would turn on the TV and see them and then she would lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kathryn Stockett, Author of The Help | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

Particle physics has a long history of zany theories that turned out to be true. Niels Bohr, the doyen of modern physicists, often told a story about a horseshoe he kept over his country home in Tisvilde, Denmark. When asked whether he really thought it would bring good luck, he replied, "Of course not, but I'm told it works even if you don't believe in it." In other words: if preposterous theories are mathematically sound and can be confirmed by observation, they are true, even if seemingly impossible to believe. To scientists in the early 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did a Time-Traveling Bird Sabotage the Collider? | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

Hillel Dining Hall will reopen tomorrow night. Until then, diners can turn to frozen dinners in Kosher corners of dining halls. Or a cookie...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hillel Dining Hall: Full of Crap? | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

...have a track record," a member of Obama's decision-making team recently said of Generals Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal. "I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt." True enough, but the mystery at the heart of The Good Soldiers remains: By what magic process did Iraq turn around, especially since the counterinsurgency tactics were so unevenly applied? Was it merely the doctrine - or did the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad neighborhoods and the sheer exhaustion after five years of astonishing fraternal brutality have something to do with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Did the Iraq Surge Work? | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

...down to two of us, I had $135 million in chips, but I think Darvin definitely outplayed me at first. There was a point where he had me down to $40 million in chips. Thankfully, I came back. I knew if I just made good decisions, I could turn things around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Cada, Poker's New Champion | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

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