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...less? Caffeine has been working its magic for decades; science has now brought us Modafinil—what next? Hopefully the complete elimination of sleep. As Gustav Graves says in Die Another Day, you can sleep when you’re dead. Now that’s efficiency. God bless modernity. And economics...

Author: By Karan Lodha | Title: Getting Busy | 4/2/2007 | See Source »

...directly threaten the U.S. Locals say the region The emergence of Talibanistan may directly threaten the West too. Locals say the region has become one big terrorist-recruitment camp, where people as young as 17 are trained as suicide bombers. "Here, teenagers are greeted with the prayers 'May Allah bless you to become a suicide bomber,'" says Obaidullah Wazir, 35, a young tribesman in Miranshah. National Intelligence Director John McConnell told the Senate Armed Services Committee last month that "al-Qaeda is forging stronger operational connections that radiate outward from their camps in Pakistan to affiliated groups and networks throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Truth About Talibanistan | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...confusion must have been obvious, and Sarah, bless her, brought out some facts of life. With infinite patience, she told me how females release hormones during sexual activity that bond them to their partner, and how males are such visual creatures that, for them, sex can sear vivid and potentially damaging memories into their minds...

Author: By Kathleen E. Hale | Title: God, Abstinence Is Sexy | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...know perfectly well how things will turn out," the knight explained, his armor probably still smeared with the blood of Archbishop Thomas a Becket. "King Henry?God bless him?will have to say, for reasons of state, that he never meant this to happen; and there is going to be an awful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Devilish Doctrine of Deniability | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...weeks later I saw Carol in the lobby. It was busy and very public. But before her last "God bless you," I couldn't help asking, "Uh. Carol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: The Power of Hope | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

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