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...several hours, I find that I write better papers and do better work when I am juggling several things at once. I think being a teenager is about finding whatever works for you. It's not about setting guidelines and limits but finding the balance that enables you to blossom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 17, 2006 | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

...collaborator, builds his drama on age-old stories that, like a puzzle, simultaneously attract and deflect the audience. Unsurprisingly, the plays are all built on somewhat macabre premises: “The Orphan of Zhao” dramatizes the historic massacre of the Zhao family; “Peach Blossom Fan” is titled after the story’s central, blood-stained symbol; “My Life as a Fairy Tale” explores the “darker side” of Hans Christian Andersen’s celebrated children’s stories (which, admittedly...

Author: By Catherine L. Tung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stephin Merritt | 3/15/2006 | See Source »

...really isn't just about the money. One of the pervasive myths of the information age is that the Internet is a kind of magic spray that when applied to totalitarian states causes democracy to spontaneously blossom forth. "Westerners saw the Internet as this garage-door opener that you could point at closed regimes and open them," says Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and co-author of the forthcoming book Who Controls the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google Under the Gun | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...those around me, those potentially brilliant minds that had yet to prove themselves otherwise. I had from the start, I now acknowledge, an inkling that I might be smarter than practically everyone around me. But my deference to the very name of Harvard prevented such a disquieting thought to blossom beyond mere conjecture...

Author: By Paul R. Katz | Title: A Big Disappointment | 1/31/2006 | See Source »

...certainly very appreciative of the patience of the students.”Liu says it has been a joy to watch students becoming enthusiastic about the course.“It has been very gratifying to witness a students’ interest in the natural sciences blossom during the course, or to observe an ‘a-ha!’ moment in which a student struggling to understand a key concept suddenly puts all the pieces together,” he writes. “These moments are what make our jobs unique and wonderful...

Author: By Elaine Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Looking for Links In the Life Sciences | 1/11/2006 | See Source »

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