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...learn the secret origins of Iron Man in Chemistry.Luckily, Harvard students have a rare set of resources at their disposal.In and around the Harvard campus, there are four treasure troves of comic books, unique to the area and unseen by most Harvard students. And behind them lie four decades’ worth of history, mystery, and rivalry.THE INEXPLICABLE PILEThe most puzzling of Harvard’s comic book resources is paradoxically the easiest for students to access. It’s free to anyone with a Harvard ID, it has over 10,000 individual comic books, and it sits...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: KA-POW! | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

Even on less uplifting reality shows, the language of therapy is pervasive. Fox's lie-detector show, The Moment of Truth--in which players reveal hurtful secrets for money--is exploitative, garish and excruciating. But it is also essentially Dr. Phil in game-show form. Like a self-help talk show, Truth brings in family members to air dirty laundry, aiming for confrontation and catharsis. For every awful disclosure (a woman admits to having cheated on her husband), there's a sentimental moment (a father offers to become a bigger part of a grown child's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality TV Wants to Heal You | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

Lesson Four: Al Qaeda may seize the opportunity to make dramatic gestures. The Sunni insurgency has genuinely been put back on its heels in the face of the surge, and there may be a temptation among insurgent strategists to lie low and regroup in their remaining havens around Iraq. But any insurgent pause now may mean lost chances to attack American troops and to score political points just as the disposition of U.S. military strength is up for debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Troops in Iraq: How Vulnerable? | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...fast-growing middle class. The projected $300 million annual income boost from the free-trade agreement "is obviously worth having," says Skilling. But "given that our total exports are about $NZ40 billion [$32 billion] a year, it's pretty small." The real action, he says, will lie in the "dynamic effect" of a bigger Kiwi presence in China and "the signal that, Hey, China is an increasingly important market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bearing Fruit | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...know how to call it. THE HUDSON REVIEW puts out its 60th-anniversary edition this month, celebrating its longevity with a concert at the Guggenheim Museum and a book, Writes of Passage. The Review, which promised at its inception not to "open its pages to those whose only merits lie in their anguish, their fervor, and their experimentation," is not the biggest nor the most prestigious of the literary-periodical set, but it has nurtured the early careers of such now familiar names as W.S. Merwin, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Wallace Stevens. And it has the distinction of having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big News For a Small Magazine | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

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