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...deadlines and hard-fisted professors has forced most students back to the safety of their dorm rooms and library study carrels. However, at the Let’s Go office, located within the Harvard Student Agencies building on Mt. Auburn, three editors are typing diligently on computers aligned neatly along the sides of the office’s large communal cubicles, engaged in a different kind of work. Even though the Let’s Go team has yet to finish selecting their team of editors and researcher-writers for 2009, they are already laying the groundwork for the next...

Author: By Stephanie M. Woo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ready, Set, Let's Go | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...Survey has concluded that vast swaths of the Piedmont, between the low-lying Tidewater to the east and the Blue Ridge to the west, potentially hold uranium.) In two years Marline had found the monster deposits in Pittsylvania. The discovery touched off a hunt for uranium statewide, alarming communities along the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge that didn't want to see horse pastures turned into mining pits. In 1982, the state acted to ease nerves by declaring the moratorium. Then the price of uranium tanked, dropping to $9 a pound at one point. Mining companies had little incentive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia, the Appeal of Uranium Mining | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...Conspiracy theories about the Skull & Bones Society are almost as old as the society itself. The group has been blamed for everything from the creation of the nuclear bomb to the Kennedy assassination. It's been aped in bad teen horror films and satirized - along with fellow conspiracy-group targets the Freemasons and the Illuminati - in The Simpsons. Even CNN has done a segment on the Prescott grave-robbery saga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skull & Bones Society | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...Doghouse" package through April 15, to help you make it up to your honey - or at least distract him or her for the weekend. At the Fairmont in Newport Beach, Calif., weekend rates start at $279 a night, including valet parking, a $25 credit for food and beverage, along with a wine-and-cheese welcome basket. Stay at the Fairmont in Scottsdale, Ariz., and get breakfast and a 60-minute couples massage starting at $649 per night. Check out the website for other participating locations and packages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel on Sale: Tahiti and South America for a Song | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...Bollywood cinema. It is debatable whether Slumdog is Rahman's best work, but it does give cognizance to Indian talent." In addition to Rahman and Pookutty, many of the film's cast are already celebrated, respected names in Indian cinema. Gulzar, who won the Oscar for best original song along with Rahman for Jai Ho, is a venerated writer, poet and lyricist; actors Anil Kapoor and Irrfan Khan are among the best in the trade. "I'm super-happy for Rasool [Pookutty], but Rahman and Gulzar are already well-known. They don't need an Oscar to validate their talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In India, Cheers and Jeers for Slumdog's Oscars | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

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