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...Pope may be right,” suggested Dr. Edward C. Green to The Harvard Crimson, “The marketing and distribution of condoms won’t solve the problem. Partner fidelity has a much better chance...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: The Politics of Condoms | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson helped improve her editing skills. “I knew that I wanted to be a fiction writer long before having any interest in journalism,” she says. “Journalism helped me to not be particularly touchy about [editing], because if it turns out better, then I’m the winner in the end.” Prone to early starts, Ganeshananthan began conceptualizing the story that would become her senior thesis as soon as she arrived on campus. “She actually essentially started her thesis freshmen year...it was something she?...

Author: By Kylie S. Gleason, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...From the 17th century onward, dairy farmers who wanted to supplement their income from milk - or who just needed a source of sweetener that was better and cheaper than sugar or molasses - drilled small holes in the trees during the brief weather window between winter and spring. (Sap typically runs out of maple trees on days when the temperature is around 40 degrees following a night when the mercury dropped below freezing.) The farmers called the maple tree stands "sugar bushes" and hung buckets under the drilled holes. Every day or two - depending on how fast the sap was running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maple Syrup | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...also need to have much better training for our faculty members. What do you do if you're suddenly confronted by a student who doesn't seem to want to respond? We're having a lot of teachers who are leaving teaching because the challenges are just too great. It's not that people don't want to help, because they do. But their hands are often tied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virginia Tech, Remembered | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

Call it Chirac's Revenge. Less than two years after he left office with nearly record low approval ratings, former French President Jacques Chirac finds himself atop polls again as the nation's most popular politician. Better still, Chirac can now boast about getting plaudits from President Barack Obama, whose recent private letter to Chirac - parts of which were published in the French press - has been widely interpreted in France as recognition for the former French leader's stance on the Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mon Dieu! Chirac More Popular Than Sarkozy | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

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