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More than six colors, fifty-four squares, and countless hours of frustration, Camann claims the Rubix cube could be the key to unlocking your inner Einstein. The Cube brought the Newton teenager a 12th place finish at the World Rubix’s Game Championships—and stellar grades in ninth-grade English. “One time I had a vocabulary test,” Camann he says, “and I memorized all the 24 words in five minutes.” Give him three hours and he’ll absorb 1440 vocabulary words...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Straight As, Cubed | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

...concordance with those views, I present my 12-team playoff. Most years, two at-large teams and six conference winners will be seeded fifth through 12th, and take part in the first round of the playoffs. These games will be played during the second Saturday of December at rotating bowl sites, which will host their traditional bowl match-ups later in the month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: King James Bible: Playoffs Needed for D I-A Champion | 12/2/2003 | See Source »

...ugly. At a publishers' luncheon last summer, Franken goaded O'Reilly for wrongly saying his former show, Inside Edition, had won Peabody Awards; O'Reilly called Franken an "idiot" and told him to "shut up." But a rising bile lifts all boats. Franken's book is in its 12th week on the Times best-seller list; O'Reilly's Who's Looking Out for You? is in its seventh, and his Fox News show remains the most popular in cable news. In recent weeks Franken has entertained a future run for Senate, and O'Reilly for President. With enemies like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media: The Rise of the Anger Industry | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...Condom”—stresses behavioral change before it does condom use. Over the past dozen years, it has been tremendously successful. “In Uganda,” the Washington Post reported last Wednesday, “AIDS prevalence fell for the 12th consecutive year. In the capital city, Kampala, the rate is 8 percent, compared with 30 percent a decade ago.” True, condoms became a greater part of Kampala’s approach in the mid-1990s, but this was after the HIV rate had already started to drop precipitously...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: In Defense of Bush's AIDS Policy | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...more. Something clicked last night against the 12th-ranked Terriers...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hockey Surges Past No. 12 BU 5-2 | 11/26/2003 | See Source »

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