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Milton makes even smart people feel stupid. Not by accident, either. He is probably the most unrelentingly aggressive poet in English. When Samson says, "My heels are fettered, but my fist is free," he displays the best and worst of Milton. The best is Milton's unsurpassed technical command of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milton and Shakespeare: Battle of the Bards | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

It was a struggle for everlasting glory and honor, a fight to the death. The task was simple: Eat twelve chickwiches in twelve dining halls (and at least one bun). The competitors were not brawny, hulking men but two petite women: Katherine Y. Tan ’10 and Michela...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, Jun Li, and H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Chickwich Challenge! | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

The very appealing notion that genetic discrimination is unfair looks especially odd in the context of insurance. The idea of insurance is to protect against the unexpected or unlikely. Forbidding insurers to take predictable risks into account when choosing whom to insure and how much to charge is asking them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetic Discrimination: Unfair or Natural? | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

Of course, there is no reason we have to follow an appealing principle off a cliff. We can have a bit of genetic justice without much risk of tumbling into Stalinism. The same politicians who voted last week to forbid genetic discrimination, because they apparently believe you should not gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetic Discrimination: Unfair or Natural? | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

The project is the brainchild of Tokai University Professor Yoshimasa Hayashi, a former top automotive engineer with Nissan Motor and author of the Japanese book To Make the World's Best Race Car. In 2001, Hayashi decided to spice up the school's drab curricula with a little real-world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fast and the Studious | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

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