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Not all readers are simply indulging their neuroses. As the preface warns, "You just never know." A satisfied customer posted the following tale on Amazon.com in January. He bought the book for his girlfriend to read while she was recovering from a car accident. As her run of bad luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help! Quicksand! | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

Pete A. Steciuk '03 has been a Boy Scout for 12 years. The wimpy New England sensibilities have not stifled his inner woodsman. In order to escape the wilds of his roommates' mess, he constructs tents MacGyver-style with delicate everyday linens. A cave shelter over his own bed remains...

Author: By Nina O. Yuen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Go Make Waterfalls: Fantasy Worlds Within the Confines of Harvard's Dorms | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

All in all, then, the South Park phenomenon is a benign one. Nevertheless, there is a problem: while the show has many virtues, it should be smarter and more surprising. It's a pretty stale idea now to think that Streisand and David Hasselhoff and MacGyver are instant punch lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gross And Grosser | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

"We had a rule that I couldn't watch television unless I knew what show was on and what time it was on. I couldn't just turn on the TV. So I only ended up watching about three shows a week," said Velma M. McEwan '00. To make up...

Author: By Mica K. Root, | Title: I Want My TV | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

Some New Jersey teenagers fax two bomb threats to their high school in an alleged attempt to extort $1.3 million. In the home of one of them, police find a bombmaking manual called Jolly Roger's Cookbook, which, they say, had been downloaded from the Internet. In Albuquerque, New Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICA'S BOMB CULTURE | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

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