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...righteousness, too smug in his conviction that his is the only viable path to self-fulfillment. A lot of the dropouts he encounters on his way offer less radical alternatives to a life within the system. Theirs might not be your way, or mine, but they all seem reasonably content - a couple of jumps ahead of the IRS, a couple of yards away from Dilbert's imprisoning cubicle. They got the sun in the morning and the moon at night, as the old song would have it, and we can pretty much imagine them immune to the appeal of American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into the Wild: Bad End | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...content of the meetings can be varied—sometimes little more than drills or ways to teach particular skills, while at other times plays themselves are exchanged...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FOOTBALL '07: Divisions Compete, Compare Notes | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...save up enough money, because it’s very expensive to test things in the lab, we sent all our food to the lab,” Ackil added. In the future, b.good will send all its prospective food selections to a lab to measure its calorie content...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Do You Want Calories With That? | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

Showing nutrition facts helps consumers, most of whom have no idea of the caloric or fat content of their food, make informed eating decisions, Michels said...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Do You Want Calories With That? | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...18th century Russian polymath born near the northern coastal city of Arkhangel'sk, runs under the Pole from north of Canada's Ellesmere Island and Denmark's Greenland to the New Siberian Islands of Russia. Each of the three countries hopes the ridge's contours and rock content will throw up proof that it is an extension of the continental shelf rather than a strictly deep-ocean formation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight for the Top of the World | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

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