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...stave off an eruption. How do you measure success and failure? First, we want to save lives. If there's an evacuation needed, a civil authority will call it, but we want to give them the best information so that people can be moved out of harm's way. The other category is minimizing economic and social disruption during the period of unrest surrounding an eruption. If you've got volcano unrest and you don't know the extent of the eruption, you really tend to overreact when you don't need to. We can also give practical information - telling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Volcano Monitors Do? | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...your picture / As if you were / Part of the attraction.” Regrettably, this topic not only lacks in originality, but it’s ambitions toward the grotesque never outstrip the juvenile. An Extention School alumnus, Holder should have been aware that there is nothing more to give to this poem than an initial flabbergasted smirk quickly followed by dismissal. In “Davis Square, Somerville: Colonial Woman at the Au Bon Pain,” Holder writes, “And Underneath / A bone-white bonnet / Lies the waves and crests / Of luxuriant / Beguiling / Purple Hair...

Author: By Olivia S. Pei, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Local's Banal Poems Fascinate, Falter | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...weaknesses of “Mindfucking” lie in its lack of depth: McGinn is certainly not the first to tell his readers about the “phenomenon” of mental manipulation, and he doesn’t treat the subject with enough intellectual gravity to give a new twist on the topic...

Author: By Antonia M.R. Peacocke, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: McGinn Fucks, Mindfucks, Fails | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard students want you to start booking flights through their aptly named GetOutofCambridge.com, a site whose main advantage over existing services seems to be a set of garish-looking buttons that give you the right dates for Harvard breaks...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks | Title: More Zuckerberg Wannabees | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...narratives, he must fight to distinguish the story from his own reflection in the gleaming glass. To create further discomfort, Hatry graces the gallery with a pig flesh example of a sculpted bust. The bust lies on a butcher’s table, attached to stuffed clothing to give it the appearance of belonging to a full body. Just as mascara and blush color the photographed figures, traces of makeup tint the greening putrid flesh. Black boots, peeking out from under the sheet, sparkle like the Wicked Witch’s red footwear in the “The Wizard...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pig-Part Art in 'Heads' | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

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