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Your story on epigenetics was interesting and even encouraging. I imagine many existing and prospective parents may be remorsefully contemplating their lifestyles before they faced the sobering business of parenthood. I know I would. And I wouldn't consider having children based on my past lifestyles and your article. All the same, society and science sometimes seem to fall into dangerous cycles. Epigenetics smacks disturbingly of the horrific days in Soviet Russia when the mad geneticist Lysenko held sway over Russian science. I also have questions regarding sample size, causality and method. In my opinion, a closed population in northern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yemen: The New New Frontier | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...messages had been able to reach you through words, we wouldn't have been delivering them through planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...stars. It's not a sequel. It isn't the screen version of a best-selling novel, a comic-book franchise or the Bible. It's got a lot of battle scenes, so women certainly wouldn't want to go see it. It's also the most tree-hugging movie ever, with a defiantly leftish agenda - at the climax, we're meant to cheer when American soldiers get killed. And what does the title mean, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avatar Ascendant | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...role in manufacturing the CDOs and other instruments that were at the heart of the financial crisis," says Michael Madden, a managing director of the investment firm BlackEagle Partners and a former Lehman executive. "If firms weren't able to buy up the parts of these deals that wouldn't sell ... the game would have stopped a lot sooner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Proprietary Trading Too Wild for Wall Street? | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

Skeptics say it will be very hard to define which trades are being made on behalf of the firm and which are being made for clients. At issue as well is which firms would be subject to the Volcker rule. The skeptics say the Volcker rule wouldn't have stopped the collapse of Lehman or another investment bank, Bear Stearns, because they were not traditional banks. (Administration officials say the proposed rule would apply to any firm that owns a bank with federally insured deposits, which Lehman and Bear both did.) What's more, critics say, if you were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Proprietary Trading Too Wild for Wall Street? | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

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