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Popular among bikers, rappers, and rebellious teenagers, the tattoo may become the identifying mark of a perhaps unlikely group—diabetics. Scientists at the Cambridge-based Draper laboratories are developing nanoparticle tattoo ink that changes color to indicate glucose levels in the skin. The researchers are aiming to test the ink on mice by the end of the month, said Heather Clark, a member of Draper’s biomedical engineering group. The small tattoos could replace the often painful finger-pricks that diabetics endure up to twelve times a day to monitor their blood glucose levels...

Author: By Emma M. Benintende, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Tattoo Ink May Track Glucose Levels | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...just the usual coffee or tea but a complimentary nail-polish change while I waited for my hair to dry. Maybe she hoped this little amenity would slow the growing inclination of women to stretch each haircut to last four months while nursing our hair back to whatever natural color we long ago forgot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In a Recession, the Consumer Is Queen | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...unique personality of New Orleans: "'Here we are. We're in New Orleans,' my dad says, and I'm seeing it, this place I been dreaming about. It's all jam-packety, pretty old houses lined up one beside the other, each one a different color, with curlicues and flowers, and, man, streets just full of people. White people, black people, mixed-race people, all jumbled up together and walking. Music right on the sidewalk...a whole band and drum set and everything, like the whole city is a big party. I'm looking out the window, eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death in New Orleans | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...Every inch of space in her shop is covered with a riot of color: bright pink crinolines compete with bedazzled belly dance costumes for ceiling space and the jewelry display cases are crammed with oversized costume gems...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shops Offer Clothes That Fit Consumers’ Wallets | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...section is just about killing time. Everyone hates those awkward silences when TFs look for answers and no one wants to raise their hand. After ten seconds of silence, you should (start a slow clap/judge a book by its cover—with special reference to color and texture/live like you were dyin’/pretend the section is a crashing plane; choose whom you would rescue and explain why, without explaining the scenario/give the signal for Mariachi Veritas to take it away!).But not every section is a match made in heaven. Conflicts between students in section are more...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Please, Write Your Own Damn Column | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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