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...game's intermission will be as tightly scripted as its opening drives. The Super Bowl halftime show has evolved into a strobe-lit, confetti-strewn spectacle that, depending on your penchant for pageantry, is either a tribute to the Super Bowl's majesty or a monument to a culture of excess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Bowl Halftime Show | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...after row of solar panels angled to the Middle East sun like bathers lying poolside. The solar farm was the first tangible evidence of Abu Dhabi's Masdar City, a $22 billion project that is planned to be the first zero-carbon footprint, totally renewably powered settlement - a monument to the use of technology to conquer hydrocarbons. "This is bringing attention and capital from around the world to Abu Dhabi," says Khoreibi. "We're going to use this as a launching pad for clean development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Enviro Utopia — in the Abu Dhabi Desert | 1/19/2009 | See Source »

...depth of French history it's inevitable that assembling even a snapshot of it under a single Parisian roof would require gigantic effort. Whatever building is chosen is sure to be massively transformed as well. Perhaps la Maison de l'Histoire de France may end up serving as the monument to Sarkozy's presidency after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong With a Museum of French History? | 1/18/2009 | See Source »

...order to secure our writing career, we give you our prepared pitches for various campus publications.The Harvard Advocate: Since it’s one of the most prestigious and most frequently recycled publications on campus, we would have been honored to have our work in this monument to yellow journalism. Unfortunately, we were turned away for wearing too few scarves and thus were never able to drop off our story about the older man who visited our lemonade stand.THURJ (The Harvard Undergraduate Research Journal): We respect the work you’re doing. Also, we THURJ all the time (sometimes...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Two Men of Letters Ponder the Press | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...Senate and House of Representatives. "In Honor of the www.YouTube.com/HouseHub Launch, Speaker Pelosi presents...Capitol Cat Cam"! What follows is a series of video clips of two cats mewing around an office in the Capitol. They sniff the flower arrangement. They look out the window at the Washington Monument. They toy with Pelosi's ceremonial gavel. Then, after about thirty seconds, things start to get weird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rickrolled by Nancy Pelosi | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

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