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...Yale Daily News selected their new guard of editors over the weekend. The new editor-in-chief may or may not get a better internship gig than his predecessor, who was forced into a back room at Vanity Fair to watch eight hours of cable news straight for four consecutive days in August...
...authors argue, online sites do not seem to be increasing how many close friends students have. In a study of Facebook pages at an unnamed university, students traded posts and photo tags with six and seven people, not far from sociologists’s estimate that people have four to six close friends in real life...
...things the website does do is shatter assumptions that the five Nobel panelists who made the decision must all be white-haired Norwegian gentlemen so cut off from reality they could have never anticipated the shock their selection would cause. First off, four of the committee members are women, with chairman Thorbjørn Jagland, the only male in the bunch. Like Jagland - a former premier and foreign minister of Norway - most members have had held cabinet posts or have otherwise been involved in politics; their ages range from 58 to 68. But it's hard to draw any theories...
...Indeed, with Obama's signature issue of health care reform in the balance and his poll numbers on the decline, a visit to the Southeast Asian city where he lived for four years as a child will hardly give him the boost he needs with the American public. But given his obvious affection for Indonesia, it is not a question of if he will pay a visit, but when. "There were a lot of people planning things but the bottom line is that it was delayed and not cancelled," says business consultant Dennis Heffernan, who is planning to make...
Like many things in Japan, the message is subtle. At least Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) hopes it is, now that the nation's second largest airline has started quietly asking passengers in Japanese to use the bathroom before boarding any of its 38 domestic flights or four international flights between Tokyo and Singapore. The request is part of the airline's "ecological flight" program, now in its fourth year, to reduce its carbon footprint by lightening planes' loads and reducing fuel consumption. Through the month of October, ANA aims to reduce wgat it carries into the atmosphere...