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...deal with writing. Books are generated by other books. In college and right after was when I was most voracious with books,” he said. He advised aspiring writers in the audience, “Take them and digest them within you to form this nutritive bed...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eugenides Dispenses Advice to Aspiring Writers at Advocate | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

Ricky Miller, a 50-year-old veteran who lost a foot in a medical mishap, still struggles with pain. "You get up in the morning, you sit on the edge of the bed, and you reach for your medicine. I use a water pipe," he says of his daily routine. "If I try to stand up without my medicine, I won't make it." For Miller, who volunteers at the Colorado Patient Coalition, medical marijuana is as necessary as his hospital bed, scooter, handicapped-access ramp and special lift chairs. And like them, it was recommended by a Veterans Affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Denver | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...your cover story, "How to Live 100 Years," you suggest living to 100 is a worthy ideal [Feb. 22]. Not always. Before she went blind, was confined to bed for several years and passed away at 91, my mother, who lived in a distant city, confided in me that she wished she could die. "I've outlived my close friends and relatives," she said. "I'm the only one left." Why live to 100 if life is miserable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

Pacific Investment Management Co., based in Newport Beach, Calif., and manager of the world's biggest bond mutual fund, is warning investors that Britain's stratospheric debt load is resting on a bed of uncertainty comparable to "nitroglycerin." If Britain is receiving such harsh criticism from money managers, can the U.S. be far behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How High Could the U.S. Tax Rate Go? | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...want to make sure you get enough sleep on Tuesday night, you might have to get to bed earlier. You don't have to adjust your schedule by much: about 1.26 millionths of a second ought to do it. According to a NASA scientist's computer modeling, that's how much an Earth day should have been shortened by the subterranean upheaval that triggered the Feb. 27 earthquake in Chile. Some basic physics explains why. (See pictures of Chile's massive earthquake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Chile's Earthquake Shortened Earth's Day | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

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