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...piece called "Safe Sex" a teacher discusses his sex-ed curriculum. Turns out the guide to safe sex includes condoms and duct tape on the girl's mouth. The bewildered teacher says he thought that was how it was done. That's hilarious. And so original...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Some 'Poon-Provided Procrastination | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

Every day for the next five months, rain or shine, D’Asaro padded her hands and knees as soon as she came home from school, securing them in layers of bubble wrap with long strips of duct tape. Then, wearing a sign on her back that read, “World Record in Progress,” she would begin her daily crawl. During these 45-minute training sessions, she sometimes brought her dog along, attaching its leash to a harness on her back. Other days, she asked a friend to walk with...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Record Breaker Gets on All Fours for Charity | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...skinny in today's Crimson about how Laura E. D’Asaro ’13 crawled the fastest mile ever to be crawled.  Beginning on a track in high school, with bubble wrap and duct tape protecting her limbs, D'Asaro began her climb to glory-on-all-fours.  Hit the link for a video and an inside look at how she made it happen...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sped Up to a Crawl? | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...Duct tape holds together his Chinese-made assault rifle, and the mosquito net in his rucksack gapes with so many holes that it practically invites dengue- and malaria-carrying insects to feast on his body. Felix has never fought in the jungles of northeastern Burma, where a rebel army is preparing for war with one of Asia's largest militaries. With no heavy artillery and little more than flip-flops and used flashlights to give their recruits, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) can only depend on guerrilla tactics to deter soldiers of the Burmese military regime. The 24-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Burma's War | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...captions; they simply cull the best offerings. If something is funny but is a questionable fit for an existing site, they'll start a new one. FAIL Blog, for instance, spawned There, I Fixed It, a catalog of such misguided repair jobs as an airplane apparently patched together with duct tape. They're always searching for new memes - jokes or fads that could slip into the virtual jet stream and spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building a Media Empire Around I Can Has Cheezburger | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

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