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Meghan is the author of some of the past year’s more memorable profiles—including a one-man frat and a first-year who prefers studying in the elevator to the library. FM’s crystal ball forecasts wittier headlines, better article ideas and many fun Tuesday nights with Meghan on board. Plus, we think she’s hott...
...Year" award, I contacted various publishers and asked them for a preview of their 2005 list (with a limit of five), including a one-sentence description. Release dates are given when they were provided. Edited for brevity and hyperbole, these listings do not constitute endorsement by TIME.comix. My crystal ball picks for what to watch for are marked with a double star...
After McIntyre performed, Crystal Johnson, a published poet from the Black Out Arts Collective, took the stage, half-singing, half-reading two poems with such striking, dramatic lines as, “are we Feng Shui or Sinn Fein?” and “I don’t ever want to be Barbie, and brother you can never be Ken.” An obvious crowd favorite, Johnson, a Cambridge grade school teacher by day, nonchalantly shrugged off the effort it took for her to come out and perform gratis, saying, “I like...
...make the payout decision far ahead of time, and we don’t have a crystal ball,” said Berman, who had yet to assume her position when those large increases were authorized. “Based on everything we knew at the time, it wasn’t a terrible decision...
...they do it? By deploying a process called X-ray crystallography. First, they grew a Bace crystal. Then they exposed it to an array of X-rays. A protein is too small to be "seen" by a normal X-ray, but if run through a series of rays, it will produce a recognizable pattern of small dots - it's a bit like seeing the bear in the pattern of stars that make up Ursa Major. The crystallography technique was once used by legendary dna discoverers James Watson and Francis Crick. As Jhoti notes, "it took Watson and Crick over...