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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...which is why in this year's mad present-buying rush, I'm not celebrating the notion that I get to pay less. I'd rather have the sorts of things that only come with a higher price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Big Shopping Bargains Are Bad News For America | 11/27/2009 | See Source »

...findings suggest that when dopamine is present during an imagined event - that is, even when you're not actually experiencing it in person - it still influences how much pleasure the brain will expect from it in the future. Researchers think the extra shot of dopamine may aid learning - that is, it boosts your brain's learned association between pleasure and whatever experience you're thinking about at the time. Or perhaps, the authors speculate, the extra dopamine makes us simply want something more while we're imagining it. In other words, it would be useful to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Dopamine Make Your Future Look Brighter? | 11/27/2009 | See Source »

...command center in Potsdam, near Berlin, and the ministry within hours of the attack. On its website the paper also posted a video of the strike. Even to the untrained eye, the many ant-like dots swarming around the trucks, which had become stuck in sand, suggested that those present at the scene were unlikely to all be insurgent fighters. A suggestion by the U.S. pilots to send a warning to those who had commandeered the trucks by flying low across the scene was not taken up, Bild said in its commentary to the video. That revelation adds weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Doubts About Afghanistan Grow After Revelations About Air Strike | 11/27/2009 | See Source »

...utmost importance that an American announcement of an increased troop number in Afghanistan is followed by additional troop contributions from other allies." But that's likely to fall on deaf ears for now. The draft bill to extend Germany's deployment includes a provision to keep troops at their present level of no more than 4500 - the third largest contingent after the United States and Britain - but does not allow for increased numbers. (Read: "Much Work Ahead for German Chancellor Merkel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Doubts About Afghanistan Grow After Revelations About Air Strike | 11/27/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard was founded by the Massachusetts Bay Colony “to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust...

Author: By Jessie J. Jiang and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Christianity Sees Shifting Place | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

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