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...Indeed, it wasn't until the overthrow of Marcos in the mid-1980s that artists were freed of the burden of representing the Philippines. "After Marcos left, the scene exploded and became plural," says Toh. Ranging from the dark paintings of Javier, whose lonely ash-gray landscapes owe as much to film noir as to Manila's inescapable haze, to the surrealism of Ventura, Philippine art has finally become, as Mashadi puts it, "post-ideological." And it is this mature quality that has caught the attention of the Asian art market. Philippine artists today have scattered in their own interesting...
...kidding me? Bernanke? The man whose excessively loose monetary policies put us in this predicament in the first place? This sort of endorsement is the last thing our country needs...
Memory-enhancing offerings range from Dakim's $2,300 touchscreen cognitive-fitness machine, used in more than 300 senior-living facilities in the U.S., to Nintendo's $20 Brain Age, whose two versions have been purchased by millions of gamers looking to do such things as play sudoku or simultaneously count people entering and leaving a house. Allstate launched a pilot program in 2008 that gave 100,000 customers software designed to improve their reaction time behind the wheel. And American Airlines offered a free memory game in an online promo in December...
...well-documented way to slow memory decline is through plain old aerobic exercise, says Art Kramer, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Illinois, who found that six months of walking for about an hour three times a week improved memory, attention and decision making among study participants, whose average age was 72. "Physical activity appears to be neuroprotective," Kramer says. (See TIME's video about fitness gadgets...
...Beltrán Leyva, one of Mexico's most dangerous drug lords, police arrested his brother Carlos, also a member of the infamous Beltrán Leyva cartel. The arrest comes amid rising violence: 29 people were killed in drug-related attacks in a 24-hour period in Ciudad Juárez, whose turf battles between rival cartels have made it Mexico's deadliest city...