Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman has just proved he can keep 1,100 graduating college kids awake for 17 minutes — and even led them in a popular local cheer about kicking ass. But Obama’s lean, understated former ambassador to China is really here to prove he can mount a credible campaign against the man he was working for a week prior.
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Medicating Young Minds
Getting by is hard enough in middle school.
Education: THE CYNICAL IDEALISTS OF ’68
THE troubled and troublesome college Class of 1968 tends to have a sober, even tragic view of life. They were high school seniors in the year that John Kennedy, a politician who gained their trust and inspired their ambitions, was shot to death in Dallas.
Study: Why Older Women Have Higher Sex Drive
Men who cheat on their spouses have always enjoyed an expedient explanation: Evolution made me do it.
Royal Wedding Walking Tour: In Search of Kate and Wills
On the winding route from friendship to marriage, Prince William and Kate Middleton have transformed mere buildings into monuments of their love.
Wrong Purchase? Why Shoppers Can’t Stop Buying
When you splurge on designer shoes for your spouse this holiday season, you should double-check that they go with the rest of her wardrobe. Because if they don’t, says a new study, she likely won’t send you back to the store to return them
A Complex Link Between Marijuana and Schizophrenia
Since the days of Reefer Madness, scientists have sought to understand the complex connection between marijuana and psychosis. Cannabis can cause short-term psychotic experiences, such as hallucinations and paranoia, even in healthy people, but researchers have also long noted a link between marijuana use and the chronic psychotic disorder, schizophrenia.
In Search Of Moses
He was marked by his imperfections. He stammered
Vinyl Gets Its Groove Back
From college dorm rooms to high school sleepovers, an all-but-extinct music medium has been showing up lately. And we don’t mean CDs.
The Incredibly Shrinking Court
Once a year, as another December gives way to a chill January, Chief Justice John Roberts rereads a poem published in 1749 by the great writer, moralist and late-night conversationalist Samuel Johnson.