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...movie, State of Play, The Soloist has been updated from a few years past to what feels like this morning. An editor looks out a window, despondent, dulled with pain, as off-camera, another one of her employees is advised to take a buyout. As Lopez reports from his desk, a freshly laid-off journalist trails a security guard out of the building. Yet The Soloist still makes you want to run out and be a newspaper columnist. Crazy? Maybe a little. Certainly most industry observers would gently suggest you choose a more obtainable, sensible goal and, given the economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soloist: Elegy for Cello and Newspaper | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...given night, the typical teenager can be found sitting at her desk agonizing over homework—while chatting away online, checking Facebook, and perhaps catching up on an episode of Gossip Girl. She can’t concentrate; her mind flutters here and there without staying too long on any particular thought. Technology like search engines helps her conduct research for her paper, but it also provides a wealth of potential distractions...

Author: By Aixin Wang | Title: Unplug and Disconnect | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...savings to us there, but I don’t believe [the change in hours] was a direct repercussion of the current economic situation.” The impact of this change on undergraduate User Assistants—FAS IT’s student employees who staff the help desk and the clinic—remain unclear. Selsby denied that the economic crisis has significantly affected student employees, adding that the eliminated shifts were often left unstaffed after the lottery process used to assign shifts at the beginning of each semester due to student preferences. Selsby indicated that...

Author: By Edward-michael Dussom, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FAS IT Cuts Hours, But Not For Budgets | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...really shameless (come on, we know you secretly hoard plastic silverware from Greenhouse and tea bags from the [insert your dining hall here] in your desk drawer), then you will mark your calendar because Wednesday, April 29 from 5pm-10pm is $0.31 scoop night at Baskin Robbins...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Free(ish) Food | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...with toucans and howler monkeys. You can raft or hike along trails that wind past 300-year-old trees, waterfalls and hot springs. The spa includes a heated pool and offers open-air massages and a fireside facial. If the volcano puts on a nighttime lava show, the front desk will even ring your room so you won't miss the sight. The longer you stay, the bigger your savings: A two-night stay gets you 10% off, with rates from $166.50 per night; three nights gets you 15% off, with rates from $157.25 per night; four nights, 20%, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 9 Deals to Get You Face-to-Face with Nature | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

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