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...they say. But this week, Gemini, The new moon, sun, Jupiter, Mercury, and Uranus are all up in your tenth house of glory. You’re going to need to go from seeing double to a one-track mind in no time. Kick your social side to the curb or kiss success goodbye...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Horoscopes! | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...make things worse, when Massa turned from discussing his own woes to the machinations of Washington, he offered ideas that have no place in Fox News's tightly regulated framework. Massa suggested that Beck and other Americans demand "campaign finance reform" to curb the corruption on Capitol Hill. Beck, who has called such proposals a "huge mistake," put his hand over his mouth, as if he were holding back an upset stomach. Massa, who has opposed Obama's health reform because it is not liberal enough, told Beck that he should stop calling people names like "socialist" and "communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Massa Circus Takes the Air out of Glenn Beck | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

...brink of ruin. But many hold both parties responsible. Several of the candidates griped about the local Republican leadership's decision to choose the party's nominee through a primary - which favors household names like Hurt - instead of a convention, which would level the playing field and curb costs. If Hurt is the nominee, says Feigel, the Tea Party Web designer, "I may stay home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Too Many Tea Partyers Spoil the Revolution? | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

...influx of cheap Chinese household goods. China has also established a network of "Confucius Institutes" in various African cities to disseminate Chinese culture, while more and more African exchange students are attending Chinese universities. A flotilla of Chinese warships is part of an international operation attempting to curb piracy off the shores of Somalia. "This discussion of Zheng He is being carried out in China at a higher and more expensive level not just to boost the glory of his personal story," says Barry Sautman, a specialist on China-Africa relations at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for Zheng: China's Ming-Era Voyager | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

Childhood obesity prevention programs, often targeted at children ages 8 and older, should begin efforts to curb obesity at infancy or even earlier, according to researchers at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute...

Author: By Julia R Jeffries, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Childhood Obesity Prevention Should Start Early | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

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