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Impress friends this holiday season with some eggnog around the fire, or at least around the empty fireplace. For novices, try a pre-made eggnog mix. Get in Chem concentrator mode and mix the following: one quart eggnog mix, four ounces of brandy, four ounces of rum, a pinch of cinnamon, and a pinch of nutmeg. Serves six regular people and one member of the Delphic...

Author: By BETH E. BRAITERMAN, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Holiday Drinky Drink | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...Walter Payton Award Finalist hopes to move up the ranks and ultimately earn a starting job, he already has a ready-made role model in Bills’ starter Fitzpatrick...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Harvard QB, Now a Cheesehead | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...effort. But grading was at first done manually, an arduous task that undermined standardized testing's goal of speedy mass assessment. It would take until 1936 to develop the first automatic test scanner, a rudimentary computer called the IBM 805. It used electrical current to detect marks made by special pencils on tests, giving rise to the now ubiquitous bubbling-in of answers. (Modern optical scanners opt to use simple No. 2 pencils, as their darker lead is most scanner-friendly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Standardized Testing | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...settlement freeze could also help get the U.S. and other Western powers off Netanyahu's back. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised Netanyahu's partial freeze as "unprecedented" even though she had earlier made an unequivocal demand for an absolute freeze with no exceptions. Now, with settlers staging demonstrations, their leaders muttering about civil disobedience and radical rabbis urging young soldiers to disobey orders that might conflict with their religious obligations to inhabit biblical lands, the Israeli leader can tell the West that he would face a civil war if he moved to dismantle settlements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protests Mount Against Israel's Settlement Freeze | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...California-based giant has already made some concessions to publishers. Under a pending settlement reached with U.S. publishers' groups, Google has agreed to limit its archiving to works that have been registered in the U.S., or come from the U.K., Australia, and Canada - English-speaking countries whose authors are present in American libraries. That agreement would nominally exclude books from countries like France and Germany, and from China, which has also objected to the digitization project on copyright grounds. Still, the accord must be approved by a U.S. federal court review in February - not a slam-dunk affair, given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe vs. Google: The Next Chapter | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

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