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Graham Greene Stamboul Train This thriller follows travelers on the Orient Express from Ostend, Belgium, to Constantinople. But railway officials rejected Greene's request for a free ride, and he could afford the trip only as far as Cologne. He extrapolated the rest, setting the last chapter near tourist sites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All In Their Heads | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

The class that relays together stays together. Or so it appeared Friday evening, when the Class of 2007 led the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team (6-1, 5-0 Ivy) to a 161-74 trouncing of the University of New Hampshire (4-5) in the final...

Author: By Rebecca A. Compton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seniors Bid Farewell to Blodgett in Easy Win | 1/30/2007 | See Source »

This year's venue at Heavenly, for example, will feature the Feb. 2-4 Her Turn Ski and Snowboard Clinic--baited with multiday family ski packages for as little as $1,300--while Breckenridge's Park & Pipe Camps are expected to draw large crowds to the Colorado town in February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carving a Niche | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

Greene explains his findings in Darwinian terms. Back in the hunter-gatherer environment of human evolution, you killed people directly, not by the triple bank shot of pulling a lever that shifted a plate that rerouted a train. So an evolved aversion to the killing of an innocent might be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Brain: How We Make Life-and-Death Decisions | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

Princeton philosopher Peter Singer cites Greene's work in arguing that we should re-examine our moral intuitions and ask not just whether these impulses still serve their original evolutionary logic, but whether that logic merits respect in the first place. Why obey moral impulses that evolved to serve what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Brain: How We Make Life-and-Death Decisions | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

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