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Ok, so you know that episode of the HBO show “The Wire” where Avon Barksdale says to Marlo Stanfield, “It’s all in the game” to describe the complications and stresses inherent in being a kingpin in the...

Author: By H. max Huber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taking It to the House: A Fond Farewell | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

Last month, the news was filled with headlines about a large asteroid which might hit the Earth in 2036. Apophis, as it is called, is 390 meters wide. If it strikes the planet, it would release more than 100,000 times the energy than that of the nuclear blast over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swine Flu Unlikely to Affect the Economy | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

Keller's and Addate's species samplings are not, of course, conclusive, and plenty of other surveys since 1978 do tie the extinctions closely to the asteroid. But since the new digs were so close to ground zero, the immediate species loss ought to be have been - if anything - greater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maybe an Asteroid Didn't Kill the Dinosaurs | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

My favorite Star Trek episode is called "Cause and Effect." Here's the setup: the crew members of the Enterprise (the Enterprise-D, since we're in Next Generation here) are trapped in a time loop. They repeat the same sequence of events over and over again. At the end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Trek: Back to the Final Frontier | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

The calculus of life suddenly offers new equations. Insurance agents see clients raising their deductibles to lower premiums, or skipping collision coverage for older cars so that they bear more of the risks themselves. Twenty-seven percent have raided their retirement or college savings to pay the bills. Violent crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Recession: America Becomes Thrift Nation | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

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