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...you’re going to have a hard time finding a seat. You’ll scour the first floor, hope for an open carrel, but walk the length of the room to no avail. Then you see it, the mark of a Harvard hound: a North Face jacket draped casually over the back of the chair, open books, and a half-eaten bagel cluttering the desk. Yet, conspicuously missing from this scene is any evidence of human life. I understand the frustration of finding a spot in Lamont, but I just can’t empathize with those...

Author: By April M. Van buren, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hate It: Lamont Seat Savers | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...He’s got a cool car and a cool leather jacket. Hello, Freeze College Magazine. Get on this, or prepare...

Author: By Walter E. Howell and H. max Huber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Prepare to Shart Your Pants | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...plan, and because I know that plane crashes are survivable, I want to know what the exits are, what the equipment is. I want to know what's under my seat. I actually reach under the seat with my hands and touch to make sure that my life jacket is actually there. So the safety briefings are very important. The FAA has done research on safety briefings, and they find that the least informed people, those that don't pay attention to the safety briefings, are frequent fliers. They think they know all about flying and all about planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: How to Survive a Plane Crash | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

Though it was nearing midnight and the temperature was sub-zero, Antoine hastily made his friend put on a jacket and run outside to the frozen Charles River down the street. Amid the snow and ice, the two friends stepped cautiously onto the frozen river and back to its bank. There they talked and laughed...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mather House Senior Remembered for Love of People and Music | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...After an initial review, they left the scene--unaware that the dead man clutched an unpinned grenade beneath him, an explosive the military later defused. "If the medics had just moved the body a little, the grenade could have exploded," says ambulance chief González. "Not even a bulletproof jacket could save them from that. The only way we are going to be safer is if this violence calms down. In the meantime, we just have to keep serving our community in the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Culiacán | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

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