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...scolding from a library official. While the Lamont Café is currently a space within a library where students are permitted to eat, it is unsuitable as a study space for many undergraduates. Nearly popular enough to be a social hangout, it can be difficult to work amid the din of conversation. Worse, the entrance of a talkative friend can be a serious setback to understanding a philosophical treatise. Students need a quiet study space where eating is permitted...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Have Your Book and Eat There Too | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

...Kuku Yalanji language), an unfussy but comfortable safari camp Trezise owns. At dusk guests can watch wallabies hop up and down behind the bush cabins. And the sunrise is accompanied by a resounding dawn chorus. Fifty-five bird species have been spotted here, and the din they create is almost enough to rouse the dead - or perhaps those Quinkan spirits. www.jowalbinna.com.au

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Glimpses of the Past | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

...were safe. Jerusalemites believed they were protected by the security wall, which separates them from the Palestinians, and by an intelligence apparatus that had cracked apart dozens of terrorist cells in the West Bank. But that illusion was demolished when a Palestinian youth, identified by police as Ala al-Din Abu Dhaim, fired more than 500 bullets at the young students gathered for a celebratory feast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Blood Feud Stirs Again | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...been criticized for everything from restarting several of Mahathir's extravagant megaprojects to rolling back press freedoms that he himself had granted. At the same time, his stolid image as a compromise candidate has come back to haunt him. "His performance is disappointing, unexciting," says Kuala Lumpur-based economist Din Merican. "He can't grasp details, and he does not understand the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lowered Expectations | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...din of airplanes landing, motorcycles roaring or a bedmate snoring can make for patchy sleep and strained nerves. But even when you manage to slumber through a rackety night, your body still registers the noise by raising blood pressure, according to a small new study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nighttime Noise and Blood Pressure | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

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