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...suppose I should be grateful that America?s cell phone craze hasn?t spun completely out of control. In Australia, ornithologists have discovered that the country?s so-called "mimic birds" are starting to use cell phone noises in place of their traditional mating calls. Australia?s cell phones are so pervasive, scientists fear, even birds living in rural areas are familiar with the tone. You?ve got to give the birds some credit. What better way to grab a mate?s undivided attention? Our feathered friends have obviously taken note of the phenomenon known as "Ooh-hang-on-while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cell Phones: Unsafe at Any Speed | 6/12/2001 | See Source »

...Shape of Things while editing his film Possession, based on the A.S. Byatt novel. "I needed a night job," he said at the opening. The new play is a night story, a cautionary tale to tell the naive young before they drift to sleep dreaming of the perfect mate. It flicks references to other fables of sexual predation (Fatal Attraction, Play Misty for Me), while stirring a mood of increasing emotional dread. And at its heart is the notion that an artist-anyway, a novelist or playwright?is essentially a vampire, draining friends of their essence, refashioning and distorting them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What She Did for Art | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...Gusmorino and his vice presidential running mate Sujean S. Lee `03 campaigned on a four-part platform designed to "improve student life, stand up for students, save students money and enhance students' academic experience"--and they have seen considerable results...

Author: By Alexander B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Under New Management | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...Plants says Driskell's term was marred by the scandals that surrounded her election, including the impeachment of her running mate John A. Burton...

Author: By Alexander B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Under New Management | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...purpose of these places was to find a mate, a one night stand," he says of the audiences who came to hear musical revues in the Adirondacks, Berkshires and Catskills. "They were busy flirting and dating and picking up and getting to know each other. Our job was not to do that but to entertain them...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Serious About Music and Little Else | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

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