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Evan J. Lushing ’04 and Gregory R. Atwan ’05 are planning to make a career out of an activity college students nationwide use as fodder for amusement—surfing the Facebook. This spring, the duo aims to release a facetious guidebook for the popular social networking Web site created by Harvard dropout Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006. The book, Lushing said, will feature joke pieces, satires, urban legends, and “fictional and fanciful” anecdotes. “The book is like a Facebook...
...easier to find on Helsinki menus than the wild Finnish strawberry exploding with the flavor of 20 hours of sunshine a day. And although Finns have figured out how to safely prepare korvasieni, a poisonous false-morel mushroom, by boiling it three times, porcini were long considered reindeer fodder...
...votes that take place this fall will be as much about the future of Congress as about the future of Iraq. There are a dozen Republicans in both houses who are in very tight races next year. A vote for the status quo, Democrats believe, is priceless advertising fodder in the coming election...
Dead or alive? It's a question that has been fodder for morning radio contests and celebrity death pools, and has even given rise to a number of websites that allow you to ascertain whether your favorite star or minor celebrity has kicked the bucket or is simply living out the rest of his or her life in obscurity. Apart from our fascination with the morbid, Internet searches on dead vs. living celebrities give us insight into the half-life of fame, as well as what drives the popularity of stars who are no longer with...
...sociology in which a clever researcher, given a little time, can unearth evidence to support almost any point of view. I also came to the sad realization that this field, like so many others, has been infiltrated by our left-right political noise machine. Our boys have become cannon fodder in the unresolved culture wars waged by their parents and grandparents. On one side, concern for boys is waved off as a mere "backlash against the women's movement," as two writers declared dismissively in the Washington Post last year. The opposing side views any divergence from the crisis theme...