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...that doesn't mean we're off the hook. "There is enough oil, but most of the easy oil, the cheap oil has been got out," says David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's. Energy experts obsess over whether we've reached "Hubbert's peak," the point at which oil reserves are 50% depleted. That's because the remaining 50% gets increasingly harder and more expensive to extract. At some point in the next decade or so--estimates range from 15 to 25 years--the world's oil production will peak. Yet demand for oil will continue to rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Gas Won't Get Cheaper | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

Part One: When you “hang out” (read: hook up) with her, take extra care to emphasize especially small and delicate kisses separated by substantial pauses; less time = less saliva + more oxygen. Every time she tries to prolong the duration or increase the intensity of the tonguing, pull back immediately. This is crucial...

Author: By Nicole B. Urken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DEAR NIKKI: Salivation and Salvation | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...least get mad scientist Prof. Markus Mobius—the dean of psych study giveaways—to hook you up somehow...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'BAMA SLAMMA: Going To Bat To Save the Music | 4/27/2005 | See Source »

...Auburn St. came alive last Saturday when James F. Collins ’07 and his fellow DJs threw “Signs” by Snoop Dogg and Justin Timberlake onto the stereo. The infectious hook filled the wooden house and the crowd of kids slumming by the punchbowl finally poured into the main hall to dance...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HRO Comes Alive | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

Even aesthetically, science leaves something to be desired. Today we hook wires to the skin and study squiggly lines, looking for transmitted truth. Three thousand years before the lie detector, it was in the Urim and Thummim, sacred stones in the breastplate of the biblical high priest, that truth was to be found. They glowed, says the historian Josephus, in patterns expressing oracular truth. And the wiring, to on high, was totally invisible. Now that was a machine. --By Charles Krauthammer

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Search of the Silver Bullet | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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