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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Ardent fans of the novel claim that a lesser known actress should have been cast as the heroine, but many think that Portman will shine in a role that demands grace, wit, and sass. Horror story fanboys, eat your hearts out—before the zombies get there first. Then again, maybe Portman will come to your rescue...

Author: By Wendy H. Chang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Natalie Portman Will Battle Zombies | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...study authors hypothesized that participants taking testosterone would engage in riskier, more aggressive behavior - that is, offer their fellow participant a lesser amount of money. What happened instead was that the women who received testosterone made significantly more equitable offers than those who received a placebo, offering their partners an average of 3.9 money units out of 10, vs. 3.4 money units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testosterone: Not Always an Aggression Booster | 12/13/2009 | See Source »

...Delhi, this was read as a sign of U.S. acceptance of China viewing South Asia - India's neighborhood - as part of its own sphere of influence. Chellaney sees the statement as a "return to a kind of Cold War thinking where two great powers can dictate terms to a lesser one." China's long-standing border disputes with India and its building up of the Pakistani military make many in New Delhi reluctant to welcome Beijing as a benign presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ties That Bind | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

From the Prox (The Daily Princetonian's lesser version of Flyby...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Princeton Students Attempt Humor | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...modern-art bonanza within. Guests check in beneath a poetic fusion of paint, cement and metal by Torinese artist Marco Gastini. A triptych by Roy Lichtenstein and a watercolor by Lucio Fontana hang in the bar. But it's the plethora of paintings, photographs and sculptures by lesser-known Italian talents - Luigi Ontani, Carla Accardi, Nicola Bolla - that suggest this is a private passion made public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Modern Art of Hospitality in Turin | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

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