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...first-years who are reading this column, I wish I could offer you some advice on how to avoid the temptation to engage in 200 meaningless three-minute conversations over the course of the week. Since I can’t think of any, though, I would like to give you some pointers on how to cope with the inevitable small talk...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Surviving Camp Harvard | 9/4/2001 | See Source »

...slow the momentum that has been building for the funding of embryonic-stem-cell research. "It's just Republican Leadership 101," Greenwood told TIME after his amendment was defeated. "Their basic theory of politics has always been stroking the base rather than courting the centrists." Still others considered it meaningless: Senate majority leader Tom Daschle indicated that no such bill would come to a vote in the Senate, which meant House members could cast a symbolic pro-life vote without its having any actual effect. That helps explain the lopsided, 265-to-162 win for Weldon's bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cloning: Where Do You Draw The Line? | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...Island School of Design graduate named Shepard Fairey started putting obscure stickers on buildings to promote a skateboard gang. They got attention and Fairey, inspired, kept slapping them up as a kind of mass psychology test: What does the average person make of a public sign that is, essentially, meaningless? The posters, stickers and spray-painted designs often bear the image of the late World Wrestling Federation star Andre the Giant, and the San Diego-based artist encourages like-minded urban guerrillas to join him in spreading a message with no message. The result: "Obey" signs in cities almost everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...Here in Washington, many interns commiserate with Peter, the protagonist of Office Space, because they also perform seemingly meaningless and repetitive clerical tasks on Capitol Hill, in the White House, or for some federal agency. Admittedly, it’s easy to find some common ground with the Office Space characters. Just about everyone has “a case of the Mondays” (and wants to beat the crap out of those who use said phrase). Just about everyone has to put up with a Bill Lumbergh-like boss, who incessantly sends memos about asinine things like...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, | Title: POSTCARD FROM WASHINGTON: Beyond Office Space | 7/6/2001 | See Source »

...unaided eye, the images are meaningless. A statistical analysis, however, shows that the early lumps--actually patches of slightly warmer or cooler radiation--don't come at random but rather at certain fixed sizes. "It's as though you're studying dogs," says University of Pennsylvania astrophysicist Max Tegmark, "and you find out that they come in just three types: Labrador, toy poodle and Chihuahua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

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