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There we go...now you're starting to see that impending wave of final papers looming for the last week in April. A little tutorial paper? Another one for your Core? Some seminar class you've been coasting through all semester? Time's up folks--you'll be lugging a bag full of Widener books for the next couple of weeks...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: VOID 4/15/09 O_O | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...city's beating heart is La Candelaria - the 400-year-old Spanish colonial core, located just off of the grand, European-style Plaza Bolivar. Not so long ago, this was a frequent battleground between FARC guerrillas and Colombian security forces - but thanks to effective security measures, the violence has given way to new hotels, cafés and galleries, including the Centro Cultural Gabriel García Márquez, www.fce.com.co, a Modernist library and exhibition space named after the country's literary giant. (See pictures of the FARC guerrillas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of Bogotá | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

Being a Somali pirate looks like a profitable business from the outside and it is. The margins are as attractive as those in the software industry. Microsoft still makes 60% or better margins on its core Windows, business, and server operations. With the risks that the pirates take, they ought to do as well as that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somali Pirates Are Getting Rich: A Look At The Profit Margins | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...this academic focus on theme over method reflects a broader pedagogical recognition that students can learn multiples modes of inquiry by researching just one theme—a realization behind the reform of Harvard’s Core Curriculum into thematic General Education areas. Moreover, as Etienne Benson, a graduate student who chairs Harvard’s animal history group, notes, the multidisciplinary nature of animal studies fosters dialogue. At a recent meeting of the group, Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Darwin scholar Janet Browne engaged with MIT cultural historian Harriet Ritvo on the history of sheep...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Animal Studies at Harvard | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

...outsize share of sales and rentals. And Chambers was agreeable to lending the video-porn industry her allure. For the next two decades she starred in porn films and Cinemax-style sexploitation efforts. In her 40s and 50s, she appeared as the hostess, and smiling dominatrix, of soft-core loops (Marilyn Chambers' Bedtime Fantasies, etc.) that still play on late-night pay cable. Perhaps her strangest career move came during the 2004 presidential election, when she ran as Vice President on the Personal Choice Party ticket; she received 946 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marilyn Chambers, the Ivory Snow Porn Star, Dead at 56 | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

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