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And unlike the risks at the poker table, where your losses are just yours, in the larger world, you can take down a lot of other people with you. "Organizational malfeasance in general depends on this kind of risk analysis," says Siler. "Look at a place like Enron. People took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Winning Can Mean Losing in Poker and Life | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

This one group of dangerously obese outliers is not the only thing that makes the twin studies something other than unalloyed good news. More worrisome is the possibility that the national weight plateau is not the result of Americans' finally getting the message about diet and fitness but the fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obesity News: Americans Not Getting Fatter | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

For now, weight experts are choosing to interpret the numbers in the most hopeful way, saying public-education campaigns are working and that now is the time to double down on them. "The one thing that was most responsible for the drop in the per capita tobacco use in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obesity News: Americans Not Getting Fatter | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

Over the ensuing years, a rash of doping scandals in the sports world - from cycling to track and field - prompted authorities to crack down harder on drug use. But in many quarters, baseball was believed to be largely immune. In April 1988 the Los Angeles Times reported that America's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steroids | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

On Sunday, over 100 Bostonians stripped down to their underpants on the T as part of No Pants Subway Ride 2010, a nationwide event organized by Improv Everywhere. It’s what that crazy college student deep inside of you has secretly desired to do since arriving on this...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No Pants? No Problem...At Least Not For the MBTA. | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

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