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...Lady’s Dressing Room”—Boyle seems determined to expose the raw humanity behind ideals of free love and art—the age and decay of the flesh hidden beneath elaborate outfits and artfully applied rouge. Or perhaps Boyle merely wishes to debunk the notion that people in the early to mid 1900s did not sweat—they glistened...

Author: By Catherine A Morris, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Novel Reveals Wright's 'Women' | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...someone who has real, on the ground experience dealing with the issues that come up in class discussion. For example, in a seminar taught by Richard L. Morningstar ’67 and Karl Kaiser, the professors asked Hansen to outline U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and “debunk some of the common myths and perceptions,” says Hansen...

Author: By H. max Huber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: National Security Fellas | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

Original estimates of the solar system's speed were based on what Reid calls "one-dimensional velocity" obtained solely from Doppler shifts. "Now," he says, "we have three-dimensional velocity and more exact measurements" - a huge advancement in the field. The findings debunk the notion that the Milky Way is a little-sister galaxy to her neighbor Andromeda. "They're more like fraternal twins," Reid says. And the fact that they are of equal size increases the likelihood that the two will someday collide. (See the Top 50 space moments since Sputnik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Milky Way: Bigger, Faster, Better Understood | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...dying not from AIDS, but from witchcraft. Meanwhile, many HIV activists encourage medical doctors in these contexts to rely on the assistance of traditional healers (who are known to spread the myth that sleeping with a virgin cures diseases. While one NGO in Zimbabwe has already tried to debunk that myth, it is astonishing that donors spend millions of dollars on expensive HIV testing and (comparably) miniscule resources are spent on providing vital information to containing the spread of AIDS...

Author: By Jan Zilinsky | Title: Hostility to Health | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...Folks close to the two companies confirm that the same iPhone models you find at AT&T and Apple stores, as well as at BestBuy, are going to be carried by Wal-Mart, if not by Christmas, then the end of December. But they debunk the $99 rumor. None of my sources would say when exactly Wal-Mart would start offering iPhones. That sounds to me like Apple might be having a hard time producing enough iPhones to satisfy Wal-Mart demand. But that's just a guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: iPhone Headed to Wal-Mart. Discounts May Wait | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

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