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Sexting n.--Sending lewd messages or photos via cell phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

...influenza virus—equipped with only eight genes of its own—hijacks the genetic material of its host cell, infecting and utilizing the human genes to execute the virus’ own operations, according to Stephen J. Elledge, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and head of the lab in which the study took place. With this understanding, Elledge and his team systematically deactivated every gene in the human genome—testing some 20,000 different genes—using new RNA interference technology, hoping to determine the genes in the host cells that...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Discover Native Flu-Fighting Proteins | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

...stood in front of those tanks in Tiananmen Square, but we do know Neda Agha-Soltan: we've looked into her eyes. For one gut-wrenching moment, as she lay dying from the bullet in her heart on that Tehran side street last June, Neda stared directly into the cell phone that was about to immortalize her. Within hours, millions of people around the world had been beseeched by those fading eyes, making an intimate connection with the 27-year-old music student and the cause for which she was killed by the thugs of an embattled regime. Before Neda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's People Who Mattered 2009 | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

During an intimate sit-down with the Napa Valley, California, chef, in which I was sitting at a desk in Los Angeles with a cell phone and he may or may not have been sitting, Keller gave credit to his staff and farmers. Then he said something about the food chain, followed by "You'll get free food for the next decade." I know it's early, but it's hard for me to see how Keller isn't going to be the Person of the 2010s. (See the top 10 everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And the Decade Goes To ... | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

Street robberies in Cambridge increased by 33 percent the first nine months of this year compared to the same period in 2008, according to CPD’s third quarter crime report for 2009. Eleven street robberies during the third quarter resulted in arrests. Portable electronics, particularly high-end cell phones, have been the main targets, the report states...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law School Student Robbed on Mass. Ave. | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

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