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...sure what the hell you plan to do here, much less in life, and you’ve just been given a 10-pound Courses of Instruction to sift through. What the hell do you do? Well, the mature, intelligent thing to do would be to knock off some of those core requirements while you get your bearings. But mature, intelligent decision are for the weak! Be daring, impulsive, self-indulgent. Take something you don’t particularly need, but will probably be interesting as hell. Your Destination: Psych 1. You’re not going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Psychology 1, "Introduction to Psychology" | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...seduction, and that's a new thing in French politics," says Régine Lemoine-Darthois, co-author of a recent book about women of Royal's generation titled An Age Called Desire. "She holds up a mirror to French women that they find very agreeable: to knock men dead while being a woman of power. She's proof that you don't have to abandon your femininity to make it." No kidding. At a meeting in Paris earlier this year, a man told Royal she looked good. "You're not too bad yourself," she retorted. Her arsenal includes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's the Gray Suit? | 9/10/2006 | See Source »

...spent the next few days walking around the district, not really to campaign, but to help out. We arranged for people to knock on doors of the sick and the elderly. We organized food delivery, and arranged water supply, got emergency generators to buildings without power or water. It was so eerie walking in SoHo and Tribeca, with the gusts of dirt, the debris everywhere, the plume of smoke. People tended not to be out. Traffic was cut off for a while. I think it was the closest any of us have come to living in a war zone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our War Zone | 9/8/2006 | See Source »

...wasn't supposed to end this way - right? - not with Coack K at the helm. But now that it did, with Team USA's semifinal loss to Greece in the World Basketball Championship in Japan, it may be time to knock the halo off Mike Krzyzewski's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Team USA—and Coach K—Shot a Brick | 9/1/2006 | See Source »

Because they were so hot, the first stars would have poured out not just visible light, but also copious amounts of high-energy ultraviolet radiation. One effect of that radiation would have been to knock apart hydrogen atoms, thus destroying their ability to block light. That process is known as reionization, and those stars, forming perhaps 100 million years into the Dark Ages, or roughly at the era's midpoint, might have rendered the universe transparent on their own if they had lived long enough. But unlike the sun, which has survived 5 billion years so far and should live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Stars Were Born | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

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