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...outside, the clock strikes the hour. As students pour from nearby classrooms, they pause to peer, wide-eyed, into the windows of room 109. They take advantage of this rare chance to snatch a glimpse of the notorious Math 55. Fascinated, their eyes explore the encoded chalkboard, entrancing them with its odd arrangement of foreign symbols, formulas, and proofs...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Burden of Proof | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

Stubbs held up the Astronomy department’s sophomore tutorial as an example of hands-on learning, where students learn the process behind acquiring and analyzing astronomical data sets in the tutorial, whereas before the tutorial program only included chalkboard lectures from astronomy professors about their own research...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Science Report Calls for Broad Reforms | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

...city's fabled and glamorous nightlife is almost gone, too, but the Lebanese dark sense of humor remains. In Torino's, a bar in the funky Gemayze district, the bartender, Michael, has written "Raad-1" - a type of rocket Israel claims is being used against it - on the chalkboard usually reserved for announcing the daily specials. Below that: "Shlomo Go Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of Beirut | 7/17/2006 | See Source »

...Subject narcissstically Googled self, and ceased when he came across unflattering remark on friend Josh Peterson's blog about his recent "nails-on-a-chalkboard" karaoke rendition of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy." (N.B.: Our mole was present at the performance, and confirms that the subject's tone-deaf singing was "excessively painful" and "should be forbidden by the Geneva Conventions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Googling for the CIA | 6/23/2006 | See Source »

...complete with pompadour, delivering daily weather reports--the so-called strangetones range in freakitude from a childlike voice repeating "My teeth are bleeding" to an overlord-type voice growling "I ... like ... to ... kill ... deer." Another ringtone, which consists of high-pitched screeching that sounds not unlike fingernails on a chalkboard, is aptly named Angst. Can't wait to hear that one go off in movie theaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 19, 2006 | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

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