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...known as the Ranque-Hilsch vortex-tube effect. No one is quite sure how the separation works, but feed the cold air into a container, he reasoned, and you would have an icemaker and a freezer, which would have zero operating costs and would be environmentally friendly, since it wouldn't require chemicals and the jet of air could be generated via a compressor powered by wind, water, man or animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figuring the Future: How to Make Ice Out of Thin Air: Cool Heat Transfer | 9/4/2005 | See Source »

...retail options, is an urban village, a first cousin to the sorts of communities Wal-Mart had always targeted. Combine the lack of jobs and stores with a strong antiunion streak, and the West Side is perfect for Wal-Mart. "If you're going to pick a spot, why wouldn't you go to the West Side?" asked Ronald Powell, president of the UFCW Local 881, which opposed Wal-Mart's entry into Chicago. "I don't think that there's any question that in the city we need jobs. But in the long term, for every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wal-Mart's Urban Romance | 9/1/2005 | See Source »

...would say to me 'Where's your husband? Is there trouble in the marriage?' And I was like, Why on earth would I bring my husband?" After she got pregnant, the couple reportedly had a friend take paparazzi-style shots of them to give to magazines so that photographers wouldn't stalk them. "Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Simple Life | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

...with other addictions, the first step to recovery is acknowledging the problem. Smith remembers being "very resistant" when she arrived at Renfrew's residential center. "I sat around crying and thinking, 'I'm not like these other people,'" she recalls, "but they wouldn't release me without a game plan, so I said what they wanted to hear for the first few days. After a while, I realized how much I needed help." Even then she was skeptical that she could beat a problem that went back to her teen years. She attributes her progress to psychotherapy, an organized routine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body & Mind: Not Just for Kids | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

...conduct, and interpret the results of, trials of drugs in which they may have a financial stake. Then there are the doctors who, seduced by the standard three-pronged charm offensive of drug company sales reps - food, flattery and friendship - respond by prescribing certain drugs with a frequency they wouldn't otherwise have contemplated. "Researchers are shameless in colluding with the drug companies in a lot of their shenanigans," says Angell from her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts - and for her that's the most demoralizing part of the mess. "In a sense drug companies are doing what investor-owned companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Pharma Syndrome | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

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