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...strongly support Hume’s greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely a problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

...Remember, that money is growing tax-deferred. Even a $5,000 nest egg could mushroom into more than $50,000 in 30 years (based on an 8% annual growth rate), according to benefit consultants at Hewitt Associates. If you decide to take the $5,000, you may be surprised when you get a check for just $2,850. That's all that would be left, assuming a 28% federal tax, 5% state tax and 10% early-withdrawal penalty. If you have at least $5,000, you can leave the money in your employer's plan until you decide what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Cash Out | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...UNITED STATES G.M. Children Researchers in New Jersey confirmed the births of the world's first genetically modified babies. Thirty children have been conceived through the new fertility treatment, ooplasmic transfer, which takes part of a donor's egg and injects it into an infertile woman's egg along with sperm. Some of the babies carry genetic material from all three "parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

These results posed a chicken-and-egg problem: Did higher brain capacity protect the sisters from developing the symptoms of dementia, or were those with lackluster biographies already suffering very early signs of some brain abnormality that predisposed them to mental decline later? That question remains unanswered--but follow-up studies, to be published next month in the journal Psychology and Aging, suggest that exercising what brain capacity you have offers some protection. While all the sisters show age-related decline in mental function, those who had taught for most of their lives showed more moderate declines than those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nun Study | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...Nothing,” Buck answered. “It’s like a scrambled egg, and there’s no way to unscramble...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Final Word on Neil Rudenstine | 5/9/2001 | See Source »

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