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...member of a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine 6) SOS – shuttle-ride of shame home from the Quad 7) Quadling – someone who lives in the Quad 8) The ’Berg – where freshman find their missing 15 pounds 9) Ho-worthy – whatchu gonna do with all that junk? 10) Billy Jim – Williams James Hall 11) “lib-in it up” – an awful night spent...

Author: By Frances Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 SLANG WORDS | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

Jeremy M. Berg, Ph.D., Director National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Nov. 12, 2007 | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...that he was surprised by what he was quoted as saying and that “there is no scientific basis for such a belief.” Watson has since stayed out of the public eye, and Seed Magazine representatives declined to comment for this story. Howard C. Berg, the Smith professor of physics and a friend and colleague of Watson for over 40 years, said he had no personal knowledge of Seed Media Group. But he said that Watson would not associate himself with an organization on a superficial level. “If he didn?...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Watson's Media Ties Questioned | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...calls excessive as well as "malicious and sadistic" use of pepper spray and other chemicals to keep mentally ill prisoners under control. In many cases the sprays have burned off inmates' skin, according to the suit. "Florida prisons still need to end this kind of outrageous conduct," says Randall Berg, executive director of the Florida Justice Institute in Miami, which is participating in a suit filed against the state's current Corrections head, James McDonough, along with other department officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong With Florida's Prisons? | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...state in the past has insisted that pepper spray is one of the more benign means of controlling violent and mentally ill prisoners - and Florida is hardly the only state that uses such chemical agents to handle unruly inmates. But beyond the pepper spray issue, groups like Berg's acknowledge that McDonough, an MIT grad and former Army colonel, has begun long-overdue reforms to tackle corruption and other abuses. "We're changing the culture of the Department," McDonough insists. "There had been an attitude that [the prison system] was a culture apart from the rest of the state government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong With Florida's Prisons? | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

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