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...While searches for "organic" food terms are on the rise, increasing about 30% over the last year alone, they are dwarfed by our searches for culinary convenience. All this food talk is making me hungry. Note to self: don't write a column about food on an empty stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food on the Internet: Tastes Like Chicken | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

...grades, but the lack of awareness about the benefits of grade skipping is emblematic of a larger problem: our education system has little idea how to cultivate its most promising students. Since well before the Bush Administration began using the impossibly sunny term "no child left behind," those who write education policy in the U.S. have worried most about kids at the bottom, stragglers of impoverished means or IQs. But surprisingly, gifted students drop out at the same rates as nongifted kids--about 5% of both populations leave school early. Later in life, according to the scholarly Handbook of Gifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are We Failing Our Geniuses? | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

...million to support institutions, programs and projects that benefited the public, Mrs. Astor celebrated that fact--and after that, she kept on contributing with her personal fortune. She had a sparkling sense of humor. She remembered names. And her intellect was lively: even at 100, she continued to write poems and articles. She loved to dance. She loved to flirt and thought that flirting as an institution necessary to romance had disappeared--a loss that she mourned. Love, she believed, brought out the best in people. It certainly did in Mrs. Astor, who adored New York and her countless friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Grande Dame: Brooke Astor | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

...cards and come with about 100 cables that can be connected to specific data points on different phones and offer direct access to memory. Flasher technology allows the investigator to do a "hex dump" of the cell phone's memory - a large amount of hexadecimal code - and then write software to decode the information. It is not the 30-second process seen on the popular CSI television shows, but can take hours of downloading, followed by days and weeks of software development, but the results can be revealing. "You get a fingerprint of who the person is," says Harrington. Recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Your Cell Knows About You | 8/15/2007 | See Source »

...Astor never neglected a guest - after all, her guests were people she had invited. She always remembered names. And her intellect was lively: even at the age of 100 she continued to write poems and articles. These were not ghostwritten pieces, but conceived and written by herself. She was also a great writer of letters and thank-you notes, which always appeared in your mailbox written in her own hand. When she had to send out numerous letters all at once, which had to be typewritten, she never failed to add her name and yours in her handwriting, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering the First Lady of New York | 8/15/2007 | See Source »

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