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...Then again, the hypothetical Martian would also scratch his head at the notion of paper money. The dollar has no intrinsic value. It has become the world's storehouse of value because it is backed by the economic might of the U.S. If another super-economy emerges, be it the European Union, China, India, Brazil or Russia, then that new power's currency could replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency, just as the dollar replaced sterling in the last century. (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Investors Should Bet Against the Dollar | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...missing this place because the crowd at Harvard is very educated,” said Kapoor, who immigrated to Mass. from New Delhi in 1978 and has been in the restaurant business since 1981. “I think I’ll have to start from scratch, but I’ll make...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bombay Club Leaves Square | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...crack was the problem. Crack causes intensely hot cocaine molecules to attach to lung cells. The body begins to produce antibodies against this damaged tissue, but ultimately, rather than deciding that it is alien, the body views the cell clusters as "self" and doesn't fight them. (Similarly, allergists scratch the skin and expose it to allergens like grass seed to produce this kind of desensitization.) "They're a body constituent as far as [the immune system] is concerned," says Dr. Tom Kosten, professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and the lead author of the study. (Read "Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cautious Hopes for a Cocaine Vaccine | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...against Brown,” said senior running back Cheng Ho, “we have to be aware that there’s no such thing as a letdown. They’re very hungry for a win. They’ll claw, they’ll scratch, [they will] do whatever it takes. We’re expecting great intensity from them...

Author: By Erika T. Butler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Hopes To Avoid Letdown at Lehigh | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

Government intervention! Private-sector-bashing! Americans trying to impress Europeans! These and other pinko motivations would secure a permanent federal handout for Yogi Bear and his picnic-basket-redistributing comrades. You can imagine how the proposal might go down were the parks starting from scratch today. Socialized nature, controlled by tree czars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Parks: a Case for Big Government | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

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