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When Elvis' version of Hound Dog exploded on the scene, their fortunes soared. Asked by Elvis' producers for more songs, they wrote more than 20, including Love Me, Treat Me Nice, Loving You and Jailhouse Rock. "We became his lucky charm," Stoller says of Elvis, then laughs and adds, "until we got bored...
...Alcohol introduces a slew of added dangers and it's vital--especially for girls--to watch out for your friends. When you're watching overgrown teenagers instead of adorable tykes, babysitting loses its charm, but it's a fact of college life. Just don't let it become your entire life...
...Public transportation is your friend. It may not run all night, but the T is by far the cheapest, easiest, most entertaining way to get around. Learn to love the Red Line and the Green Line, and even the Orange Line has its own special charm. (The Blue Line is worthless. If you're traveling from Logan, take a cab instead.) The best buskers are at Park Street, and the Harvard station gets its fair share of talent...
...Technically, no. Long before the crash, NASA chose specific projects to include in its annual report. As luck would have it, the only part of the lander mission they chose to rate was the robotic arm, and when they tested it on earth, it worked like a charm. If you lost a $165 million lander because of a missing line of computer code, wouldn't you try to accentuate the positive...
...piracy only looks like the free-and-easy island life. It's actually hard work, because it lacks efficient economies of scale. Once you start seriously churning out the product, you quickly become very visible: warehouses, trucks, employee payrolls--it all adds up. The sweet charm of piracy is free, daring little "us" vs. big nasty "them." But any "us" that gets large enough is automatically a "them." Bill Gates was once a hippie programmer, a college dropout from Seattle. But a hippie with a billion dollars is no longer a hippie; he's a billionaire. A hippie with...