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James D. Watson, “Avoid Boring People”

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BY ITS COVER | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

Are your female heroines based on you or someone you know? -Julie Lavoie, Montreal They're certainly not based on me-that would be boring. I'm not nearly as adventurous, brave or unselfish as any of my female leads. I don't know anyone that interesting either. My job...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Nora Roberts | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

Wong ran afoul of Singapore's censors when they threatened to pull National Arts Council funding from his second volume due to the gay content of some poems. But he learned to cope with the restrictions, and they haven't prevented him from attaining mainstream acceptance, represented by his winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merlion Heart | 11/28/2007 | See Source »

Social networks are a lot like nightclubs, and Friendster was the place to be in 2004 and '05, before MySpace came along and stole its mojo. In short, Friendster got boring. "It's like a high school dance," says Max Levchin, CEO of Slide, a top maker of image-based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Facebook Overrated? | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

By all rights, the Eden Project should have been a commercial disaster, as even its founder admits. "All environmental-science centers go bust because they're boring as s___," Smit says. But Eden wasn't boring, and it didn't go bust. The park has pulled in more than 9...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Cornwall | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

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