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...late March, a macabre music video appeared on a television show for Palestinian children. "Duha," 4, as pale as a porcelain doll, is sitting on a bed, watching her mom dress before leaving home. "Mommy, what are you carrying in your arms instead of me?" the girl sings. The next day, Duha gets the answer from the evening news. It turns out her mother was carrying explosives and had blown herself up, killing four Israelis. The final scene shows the girl wistfully rummaging through her dead mother's bedside table. She finds a hidden stick of dynamite and picks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palestinian Moms Becoming Martyrs | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...It’s not just the bed. Bedbugs are generally transported as stowaways in your possessions. If you bring back a female that has been mated or two bedbugs then you might end up setting up a colony in your home.... Most often and most relevant to students would be during move-in and move-out day. You see that lovely piece of furniture on the side of the road and you say, “that’s nicer than what I have,” and you bring it in and it may come complete with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hey, Harvard School of Public Health Researcher Richard J. Pollack ... | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...different rhythms, day and night, the seasons. The body has circadian rhythms, and drumming teaches you how to link up all these rhythms in harmonious ways,” he says.He offers a scenario: “For example, if my roommate likes to go to bed at 11 and I like to go to bed at 2, drumming teaches me how to make these different rhythms fit not just musically, but in real life.”Drumming has also helped him realize the importance of leading by example.“When you’re drumming with...

Author: By Victoria D. Sung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Oludamini D. Ogunnaike '07 | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

Mulch. Danger. These are two words that don’t appear in the same sentence all too often. Until now. Residents of Winthrop House have recently experienced a number of mini-fires in the mulch beds lining Standish courtyard, and while the exact cause of the fires is unknown, unextinguished cigarette butts are high on the suspect list. Two small conflagrations have been witnessed in the same mulch bed outside Winthrop’s E-entryway in the past month. The scene of the (alleged) crime is in a prime location for smokers to take a few drags, says...

Author: By Paul T. Hedrick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Mulch, The Mulch is on Fire | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...hawkish Alem?n, who speaks wistfully of the repressive days of the Somoza dictatorship (which Ortega overthrew as leader of the Sandinista insurgents), was never a typical prisoner. He has spent more of his jail sentence in a hospital bed recovering from a minor finger surgery (three months to be exact) than he spent behind bars. And now that full freedom appears to be just around the corner, he has valiantly cast aside concerns for his own health for the good of his party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Nicaragua's Caged Bird Sings | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

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