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Chatting online with strangers is only ever one of two things: creepy or demoralizing. Remember when you deleted your MySpace account circa sixth grade because you started getting friend requests from SeXaayGuy69 and LetzCyber4ever? That’s the same reason we should all just close the Chatroulette tab for good...

Author: By STEPHANIE R. MCCARTNEY, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hate It: Chatroulette | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...hugely. The folks who were behind prohibition saw this as kind of a moral cause in which the ends definitely justified the means - they were going to make people quit drinking. They realized the major supply came from these bootleggers who were stealing industrial alcohol (which is regular grade alcohol that you add chemicals to in order to make it undrinkable) and distilling out the bad chemicals. The government passed new regulations that forced manufacturers of industrial alcohol to, in some cases, put 10 times as much poison in that alcohol. People started dying in droves. Scientists and toxicologists were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CSI: Jazz Age New York | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

...study of fourth and fifth grade teacher evaluations sheds light on the unique circumstances girls face during childhood. Fifty-four percent of negative criticism directed at boys centered on their intellectual capacity, while inadequate intelligence was cited as the problem in nearly ninety percent of girls’ negative criticism. Under these skewed perceptions and low expectations, girls are not poised to develop the same confidence in their abilities as boys, playing into their risk-averse nature...

Author: By Lea J. Hachigian | Title: Risky Business | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

...mayor, Maher will also chair the Cambridge School Committee, where he said he is ready to address an outstanding proposal that Cambridge ought to establish a middle school. Cambridge currently has kindergarten through eigth grade schools, but no middle school system...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge City Council Elects Maher Mayor | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...whose salons consist of a tree trunk with a mirror tacked onto it. Habib has helped convince middle India that hair is not just something that grows on your head but a market waiting to be primped and tugged at. "People used to think hair care was a low-grade profession, with no future," he says. "I showed them that it's both a science and a business." (See pictures of India's contraband wildlife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In India, A Salon A Cut Above the Rest | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

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