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...Everyone’s jumping on the elderflower kick,” commented Sashu Magondi, the bar manager at OM, which plans to stock the liquor. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Absolut Unveils Beantown-Inspired Vodka Flavor | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

...will ask prospective buyers some strange questions too, such as "Do you own a garage, for in-home refueling?" If the answer is no, an old-school, fuel-efficient Civic might be a better choice. And if your commute is more than 40 miles, well, you might want to kick the tires on a nifty hybrid. If, like Q'Orianka, you want a fuel-cell car, but you're not living in the Southern California hydrogen-fueling cluster, sorry. Only a dozen hydrogen-fueling stations exist, all in a 60-mile stretch between Newport Beach and Santa Monica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zero-Emission Cars: A Battle Among Technologies | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

...make my first cut much easier. I will green-light medical intervention on four criteria: cost, likelihood of success, years of life saved and a person's awesomeness. For example, we'd all shell out to keep Justin Timberlake going for another 50 years, but we probably wouldn't kick in much to spot Michael Vick an extra four months. And we can all agree that $6 million is a pretty good deal to make Lee Majors bionic again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: If I Ran the Death Panels | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...awareness campaign highlighting the risks of legal drugs, especially when they are mixed with alcohol, will kick off in September to coincide with the start of the university year. The U.K.'s drug czar, David Nutt, said in a statement that the drug advisory council would continue looking into other legal highs throughout the next year. At the top of the list will be mephedrone and its derivatives. Mephedrone, which can be used as plant food, is sold on legal-high sites as an alternative to cocaine. (See a graphic on addiction and the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War on Designer Drugs: Britain Bans Legal Highs | 8/27/2009 | See Source »

...allows players who've already left the game to return in place of those too bloodied to continue. In the Harlequins' case, that meant getting winger Tom Williams to secretly bite into a synthetic blood capsule, then sending him off as "injured" just in time to bring a place-kicking specialist back on to take a potentially game-winning penalty kick. (See pictures of the last Rugby World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London Rugby's Harlequins: Cheating At a New Level | 8/22/2009 | See Source »

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