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...same time, new display technologies are emerging that promise to improve battery life and make devices more portable and easier to read. U.K.-based Plastic Logic hopes to introduce next year the first e-reader with a plastic screen that will reduce glare and be less prone to cracking when dropped by ham-fisted owners. Electronic-ink technology is set to move from black and white to color by the end of 2010. Even video is on the horizon. "We'll see a range of models start to appear over the first half of 2010" offering "a range of different...
...reason is that the abstainers in the study sample were more likely to have illnesses such as osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia, and people with chronic illnesses are more prone to melancholy. Also, "some people assume it's healthier not to drink," says Skogen - which may be particularly true of those who have chronic illnesses. Finally, some abstainers were formerly heavy drinkers - alcoholics who had to give up the bottle. It makes sense that they would have more psychological distress than others, but only 14% of the abstainers in the Norway study fit this category. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Britney Spears, among roughly 3,000 others, are "semi-protected," meaning they can't be edited by anonymous surfers. Wales says that, at least initially, the new flagged-protection plan will probably apply to the same set of controversial articles, which are most prone to vandalism. But the vast majority of articles - even the ones about relatively famous people, like your average U.S. Senator or late-night talk-show host - would remain open to alteration by Web surfers...
...chief investment strategist of Legg Mason Capital Management, Michael Mauboussin's job is to understand the world and then make money off of it. What he's found over the years is that investors, like any other group of people, are prone to make mistakes that stem from faulty approaches to decision-making. In Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, Mauboussin - also an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School - pulls from fields such as psychology, statistics and complexity science to explain how we might do better. TIME's Barbara Kiviat spoke with...
...over the past three decades is dangerously fragile. Second, the U.S. government is capable of keeping a financial panic from snowballing into a complete economic disaster. Third, the government has not yet shown itself to be capable of doing much of anything to make the financial system less collapse-prone in the future. (There's a link, by the way, between the government's failure in No. 3 and its success...