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Human beings are innately trained to do certain basic things: Eat. Drink. And despise television commercials. But put down that remote for a second. While in no way should you shun food and water, don't go skipping through the car ads on your TiVo. Turns out that sitting through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do TV Commercials Make You Happier? | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

Emergency Exits Getting to an emergency exit as quickly and safely as possible is a key factor in surviving an airplane crash. Passengers tend to take the glowing pellets that line cabin floors for granted, but until 1984, emergency lighting systems typically employed overhead lights - not much help in smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surviving Crashes: How Airlines Prepare for the Worst | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

While MacDonald says the Square was once a place where you could find a convergence of people from all backgrounds—with “Nobel Prize-winning professors sitting next to a burned out hippie sitting next to a street person”—an onslaught...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: 126 Years and Still Smoking | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

But Obama did not allow his party to dwell on finger-pointing. He kept talking through their applause, forcing them to return to their seats. A coach, after all, cannot lead a team divided. He told the country's leaders, Democrats and Republicans, supporters and opponents of his presidency, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Gives Team America a Pep Talk | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

Not everybody, however, buys into this promise. Patrick Technau, a 24-year-old student, organized a demonstration in June 2008 under the motto "F___ Yuppies," which, he says, was also directed at the Marthashof development. Sitting in a café on Kastastanienallee, Technau points to a house with a crumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Berlin, a Gentrifying Neighborhood Under Siege | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

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