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...done. Few Britons had ever heard of ski cross before the Vancouver Games, but the event, which pits four skiers simultaneously against one another over an undulating course, drew millions of television viewers. London organizers have been busy drawing up marketing plans to help push the lower-profile events. Vancouver may have given them some ideas. (See pictures of weird sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympics: What London Can Learn from Vancouver | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...similar strategy for managing a growing mountain of debt on this side of the Atlantic might work, with Washington increasing the top tax rate, say, from 35% to 45%. At the same time, rates could be increased by a smaller amount in lower brackets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How High Could the U.S. Tax Rate Go? | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...which does not lend much statistical power to its findings. But given the considerable social stigma about euthanasia in the U.S., where only two states, Oregon and Washington, have legalized physician-assisted suicide, researchers think that the percentage of parents admitting to having thoughts about hastening death is probably lower than reality. (See how to prevent illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Parents Weigh Hastening End for Dying Children | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...standing effort by Faust to improve diversity on campus. Faust ascended to the Presidency in 2007 under the shadow of former University President Larry Summers’ comments alleging that the relatively low number of tenured women in science and math departments might be explained by women having a lower aptitude for those subjects than...

Author: By Elias J. Groll and William N. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Faust Stresses Need For Staff Diversity | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...grown LeVay sons, Kent (Jason Dirden) and Flip (Billy Eugene Jones), return home for a holiday, each bringing with them a romantic interest. Kent’s girlfriend is Taylor (Nikkole Salter), an angry, intelligent, lower-middle-class black entomologist who wants nothing more than to fit in with the LeVays. Flip, on the other hand, brings home the white, wealthy Kimber (Rosie Benton), who works with lower-class students in a poor neighborhood. The two women inevitably clash, as do the two brothers. Maid Cheryl (Amber Iman) and patriarch Joe LeVay (Wendell W. Wright) observe the couples?...

Author: By Araba A. Appiagyei-Dankah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HTC's 'Stick' Flies in the Face of Racism | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

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