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...certainly become healthier. That, at least, has been popular wisdom, but until now, no one had ever put it to a statistical test. Now someone has, and the results are striking: according to a study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, when local governments decide to scrub out the smog, local residents actually live an average of five months longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Live Longer? Cut the Pollution | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

...these remedies, on the road or at home. Peppermint Cooling Foot Heaven Gift Set The Body Shop packages some of its peppermint foot products in the travel-sized Peppermint Cooling Foot Heaven gift set for just $20, which is a pretty good deal. It comes with a potent pumice scrub and a Cooling Foot Spray that will chill you out just enough. There's also a wooden foot file and two toe separators for pedicures on-the-go. But if I had to pick one of these products to bring on the road, it would be the Peppermint Cooling Foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top Treatments for Road-Weary Peds | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...America is trussed up with Disney tie-ins, so it's no surprise that Stateside fans, should they choose, can watch HSM the movie while eating HSM candy, then scrub up with HSM hand sanitizer before going to sleep under an HSM duvet. But Disney's global marketing strategy, combined with its embrace of a range of technologies to reach various regions and audiences, has ensured that HSM's reach stretches far beyond America's shores. "It's genius," says Michael Gubbins, editor of Screen International, a London-based industry magazine, of Disney's HSM marketing strategy. "They've understood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How High School Musical Conquered the World | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...Both John McCain and Barack Obama have promised reform if they are elected. Both have promised to reregulate the markets (although McCain has always been a vehement deregulator). Both have promised to scrub the Federal Government for waste, fraud and abuse - a perennial pledge, but one that will actually need to be met if either man hopes to have the credibility to propose any new government spending. Obama wants to spend more than McCain, so he has to work harder to prove his reform chops. Indeed, Obama has tacitly acknowledged the prevailing skepticism by building accountability into some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of the Age of Activism | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...circle of life has fangs: mosquito bites man, fish eats mosquito, crocodile eats fish, man shoots crocodile, man dies of malaria. But for a few weeks a year, South Africa witnesses the climax of a somewhat gentler natural cycle. Most of the time, Namaqualand is a featureless swath of scrub desert running from just north of Cape Town up the coast to Namibia. From August to October, however, these plains explode in a display of wild flowers. What was once brown, dusty and flat is transformed into a sea of pinks, oranges, yellows, whites, purples and reds. Better still, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desert Blooms | 7/23/2008 | See Source »

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