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According to a recent Boston Globe article, the cadets at the Randolph Regional Police Training Academy had invited Crowley to speak at their upcoming graduation ceremony in April. But according to Crowley's brother Daniel, the idea was vetoed by state officials at the request of Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick '78 because Crowley would be too controversial...

Author: By Sanghyeon Park, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gates' Arresting Officer Too Controversial to Even Talk | 1/23/2010 | See Source »

When Joz Wang and her brother bought their mom a Nikon Coolpix S630 digital camera for Mother's Day last year, they discovered what seemed to be a malfunction. Every time they took a portrait of each other smiling, a message flashed across the screen asking, "Did someone blink?" No one had. "I thought the camera was broken!" Wang, 33, recalls. But when her brother posed with his eyes open so wide that he looked "bug-eyed," the messages stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Face-Detection Cameras Racist? | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

...than compare the rates of depression and migraine of the relatives to those of the general population, the study compared rates within this isolated population itself. For each of the 977 people studied, they calculated how much DNA that person shared with every other member in the study. A brother and sister, for example, share many more genes than distantly related cousins. Comparing these relationships to the prevalence of both diseases enabled researchers to determine that it was genetics, not chance, that led to the association. (See "The Year in Health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Genetic Link Between Migraines and Depression? | 1/20/2010 | See Source »

Just weeks after authorities gunned down Arturo Beltrán Leyva, one of Mexico's most dangerous drug lords, police arrested his brother Carlos, also a member of the infamous Beltrán Leyva cartel. The arrest comes amid rising violence: 29 people were killed in drug-related attacks in a 24-hour period in Ciudad Juárez, whose turf battles between rival cartels have made it Mexico's deadliest city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

Rather than do what any sensible Chinese parent would with obstreperous children - send them away to work 14-hour days in a textile factory - Bob sets about quietly educating Farren, her 9-year-old brother Ian (Will Shadley) and kid sister Nora (Alina Foley), 4, in social graces. Eventually he has charmed and awed them into submission, by inadvertently putting them in the crossfire between some evil Russkies and his CIA contacts (George Lopez and Billy Bob Thornton), and by exposing himself to grievous bodily stunts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Next Door: Jackie Chan, Babysitter | 1/16/2010 | See Source »

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