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...seeking consensus, their design features not minarets but windmills. Inside, they planned space for a hammam (or bathhouse) and a row of shops. The mosque was never meant to exist but to generate discussion. Mission accomplished: elders have sniffed that it isn't traditional enough and Dutch-born Muslims eager to see the mosque's role expand beyond prayer have applauded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Updating the Mosque for the 21st Century | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

This is one reason there's new interest in taxing gas, alcohol, electricity and even trans fats to discourage undesirable behaviors while closing budget gaps. Obama has already hiked taxes on cigarettes and wants to end tax breaks for drilling and offshoring. He seems even more eager to subsidize desirable behaviors like saving, teaching, weatherizing and buying fuel-efficient cars and energy-efficient appliances. Of course, his energy policy goes beyond incentives; he wants a strict national cap on carbon emissions. He has also signaled openness to a national health-insurance mandate. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Is Using the Science of Change | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...false sense of familiarity with New England culture is only perpetuated, however, by most of the attempts we make to get closer to the real Massachusetts. PBHA vans shuttle eager students into poor areas of Boston on a daily basis. But the Harvard bubble is not geographical in nature; it is not something you can merely drive past. Such programs are staffed by familiar Harvard students who return thinking they have transcended the borders of the school, when in reality, they have only temporarily stretched them...

Author: By Lea J. Hachigian | Title: Beyond the Harvard Bubble | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...eager rabbits started contemplating ideas for Spring Formal, the idea of holding it at Top of the Hub, at the zenith of the Prudential Tower--“the premiere location in Boston" according to one Leverett resident--quickly gained attention and popularity...

Author: By Julia S Chen | Title: Bottom of the Formal Planning Barrel | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...Many eager high schoolers look for a Harvard Admissions loophole.  We at FlyBy aim to please, and found a sweet hack on the Admitted Students website, but, sadly, it still probably can't turn a thin envelope into a thick...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child | Title: We Cracked Harvard Admissions | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

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