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Abandoned ships wreak havoc on the marine ecosystem long after they've sunk. Decaying wreckages leach toxic chemicals like petroleum products and PCBs that remain in the water harming or destroying sea life and potentially enter the food chain, eventually getting ingested by humans. Sometimes dead watercraft foster the growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Underwater Junkyard | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

It is the project of Dr. Jay Giedd (pronounced Geed), chief of brain imaging in the child psychiatry branch at the National Institute of Mental Health. Giedd, 43, has devoted the past 13 years to peering inside the heads of 1,800 kids and teenagers using high-powered magnetic resonance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes Teens Tick | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

Construction Ahead One reason scientists have been surprised by the ferment in the teenage brain is that the brain grows very little over the course of childhood. By the time a child is 6, it is 90% to 95% of its adult size. As a matter of fact, we are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes Teens Tick | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

Most parents, of course, know this instinctively. Still, it's useful to learn that teenage behavior is not just a matter of willful pigheadedness or determination to drive you crazy - though these, too, can be factors. "There's a debate over how much conscious control kids have," says Giedd, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes Teens Tick | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

Throughout the years, Metallica has managed to remain heavily invested in metal while earning devoted fans outside of 17-year-old Nietzscheans and Eastern European satanists. Their 1983 debut, “Kill ’Em All,” won them their angry, head-banging base, but through...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Metallica | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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