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...sheep; they're not a horse. They're an animal that should eat a mouse or two, then, if they're lucky, another mouse or two later, if it's a good day. But they can also go 24 hours without food. In reality, that would be just fine, but that's hard for us [to understand], because we like to think of them - and ourselves - having nice warm tummies. Two meals a day is really to suit the human experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Your Cat Wants You to Know | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

...Reith may well be spinning under the grass, but the BBC isn't alone in its travails. Britain's Serious Fraud Office may review documents obtained from the U.K. communications regulator, Ofcom, in relation to its decision to fine the breakfast TV company GM.TV. In September, the regulator imposed a penalty of some $4 million on GM.TV for encouraging viewers to dial premium-rate phone lines to enter competitions after winners had already been picked. ITV has admitted to similar practices. "Television is at a low point," says Graham Stuart, director of independent production company So Television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad News at the BBC | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

What makes the issue trickier is that there's often a fine line between assisted and unassisted playing. When Klaus Schaloske, a retired schoolteacher from Ontario, takes a backswing with his left arm--from a right-handed stance--the stump of his missing right arm grazes the club. Under the society's rules, that counts as assisted play, though its president, Malcolm Guy, has promised to review Schaloske's case with his rules committee. "It's a silly rule," an incredulous Schaloske says. He holds up his appendages. "How many do I have?" But that stump makes a difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf's Swinging Singles | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...really need help from people and we need to form a working relationship with people who are part of that Harvard community,” said Harry Mattison who is a member of both the Harvard-Allston Task Force and the neighborhood assembly. Andrew D. Fine ’09, one of the event’s organizers, reiterated Mattison’s concerns and said that as a student he is concerned about the impact of the expansion on the Allston community. “What we need to do is pressure Harvard to realize that they have...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A New Alliance for Allston? | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...Patrick said. “Access to great education is what you, the Little Rock Nine, made possible for me.” Patrick challenged students and the younger generation to follow in the Little Rock Nine’s footsteps. “Coming to acknowledge what these fine and brave people did in their time ought to make us ask the question: What are we doing for our time?” he said. The former students added similar sentiments, expressing hope that their actions would inspire others to take similar risks. “Fifty years...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reliving Little Rock 50 Years Later | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

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