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...their sexual orientation. The long and painful history of discrimination against gay and lesbian persons is epitomized by the criminalization of homosexual conduct in many parts of this country until very recently. School-yard bullies have psychologically ground children with apparently gay or lesbian sexual orientation in the cruel mortar and pestle of school-yard prejudice." (See TIME's top 10 ballot measures...
...didn’t I think that before?” The group moved quickly to produce inhalable chocolate, which they called Le Whif. Martin and May were in charge of marketing and packaging while Zhou and Kamler handled the science. The team ground chocolate endlessly using a mortar and pestle Martin happened to have for an art project. (Eventually they’d graduate to dining hall knives.) By December they had the prototype for their inhaler (“Guard it with your life!” Zhou remembers Kamler warning.).Le Whif, simply put, is an inhaler...
...Over at Academic Approach, online programs are also enjoying double-digit growth. They're more expensive - $499.99 for 45 instructional videos and over 375 lessons - but still a bargain compared to $100-to-$200 an hour the company charges for in-person tutoring at its bricks-and-mortar centers in Chicago, Boston, and New York. Another not-so-surprising sign of the times: for $99 a month, TutorVista will set you up with an online tutor in Bangalore. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...anyone hoping to see stimulus money put to work creating jobs quickly. Those for and against the Administration's plan to right the economy spent the day shooting mortar rounds at one another in the Capitol. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
Aside from the put-it-out-for-free model, the marketing angle of novel podcasting is what separates it from bricks-and-mortar book-selling. Sigler and Hutchins continue to use the online world to campaign. But how far can this niche truly expand? Most of the copy is generated by tech-saavy, sci-fi loving males, though romantic novels and military fiction are also becoming popular. Mur Lafferty, 35, a novel podcaster who lives in Raleigh, N.C., concedes "there's a lot of guys," but she finds a growing number of listeners are women. What ultimately stands...