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...looks like a pirate; run as he chases you with his hook. 12) Use dance-offs to resolve day-to-day conflicts. Invite spectators to join. 13) Do squats on John Harvard—fulfill a graduation requirement and appear in photo albums across Asia. 14) Convert dining tray conveyor belts into treadmills. 15) Host a condom water balloon fight. Supplies are available in your laundry room...

Author: By Nicole G. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Ways to Stay in Shape Once the MAC Closes | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

Mafatlal's first job was with one of her father's businesses?a purveyor of industrial fabric for conveyor belts. She went on to build her own business selling modular kitchens before founding MLP. "As an entrepreneur, I identified that our lifestyle is changing," she says. "We're on the upward curve of the retail boom, although the market is still not a mature market. I wanted to start with the right brand to spell Western luxury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art Of The Deal: Luxury's New Lotus | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...prevent it from sinking as it cools and returning south to the tropics where it can replenish ocean currents like the Gulf Stream. And because the Gulf Stream is the only reason much of Western Europe has so mild and temperate a climate, such a shutdown of that conveyor belt of heat could be nothing short of catastrophic. Oceanographers reported late last year the ominous news that one element of that family of currents has slowed 30% since 1992. It's not clear yet that this is the beginning of the feared shutdown, but if so, it represents yet another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has the Meltdown Begun? | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...rare for teenagers of any generation to think that far ahead, never mind the cohort that reached adolescence at the height of the drug boom. It may be impossible to slow the demographic conveyor belt that's going to dump so many of them into the senior population with a habit they picked up during their summers of love. But it's not too late for them to shake it off, achieving the peace in the last chapters of their lives that the drugs promised them in the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Balding, Wrinkled, and Stoned | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

...elite America is a time of great suffering. Admissions porn litters the living rooms of millions of ambitious families, most of them in a state of nervous collapse. College-bound seniors exhaust saliva from the sheer fatigue of sealing envelopes, frantically competing for seats on the Great Meritocratic Conveyor Belt...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani | Title: Let a Hundred Rankings Bloom | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

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