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...live tree doesn't guarantee a green Christmas. Instead of simply tossing your tree in the trash on Dec. 26, recycle it. Thousands of municipalities across the country offer Christmas-tree-recycling programs; you can look them up on earth911.com The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will even collect discarded trees and use them to create underwater forests in man-made lakes, sprucing up the habitats of fish and other aquatic critters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O Christmas Tree | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...have almost complete control over an inmate's ability to communicate with the outside world. By checking their mail and parceling out telephone access - at scheduled times on easily and legally tapped landlines - communication for inmates was difficult and often expensive (their families had to pay for the hefty collect calls, usually the only kind allowed in jail). Today, however, as cell phones proliferate (with an estimated 3.5 billion and counting), they are reaching into every corner of the planet - including jail cells. Authorities in India recently confiscated more than 600 cell phones in a prison in the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Keep Cell Phones Out of Prison | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...come, it seems, is to describe thematic parts that figure prominently in at least some of them. The first, potentially unifying, simultaneously elusive concept is that of the found object, extracted from its continuum, and repurposed as art. All of Conner’s work seems to collect beneath a font of discarded, quoted, recontextualized materials—educational films, pornography reels, propaganda, B-movies, television, newsreels, quoted songs. As a filmmaker, Conner seems to revel in an almost Dadaist attitude toward a new democratic vision of art, where all materials—no matter how inane or lewd...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HFA Glances Back at Conner | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...didn't do that much preparation for my opponents. I got the information that I could collect about the other guys. I tried to search for information online and watched the ESPN tapes. But you're really not getting that much out of that kind of information. It's really about being prepared mentally for playing for a lot of money and a prestigious title. You have three or four months, and mentally, I just got into the right mindset so that I wasn't nervous at the final table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New King of Poker | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

Good may not be a strong enough adjective, since both teams relied heavily on their rookie keepers, and Hoyle’s superior performance helped the Crimson collect its third victory at home this season...

Author: By Stephanie Krysiak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Home Still Sweet For Crimson | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

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