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...Navel ROTC cadet will continue to clean blackboards in the Science Center and do odd jobs around Cambridge. But he said that doesn't mean that he didn't win money on the show...
This is an institution that exists solely to promote the development of health, literacy, wealth and education in the poorest two-thirds of our world. They tackle debt-relief and malaria while the rest of us navel-gaze our way through the status quo. So in my mind it doesn't matter if Harvard academics now have an opportunity through the center to communicate their ideas to and explore new solutions with Third World leaders. It doesn't matter that hundreds of students work with, research for and attend workshops given by the center. It doesn't really matter...
...Customs recently began installing airport-surveillance systems that scan travelers for contraband using low-power X-rays, which reveal the shape of a person's navel and other, more private parts. The scans are voluntary, so we asked a few privacy experts if they'd rather be patted down by a guard or ogled onscreen...
...strong case to made, based on Mohsin Hamid's debut novel Moth Smoke, that "Generation X" is not just an American thing. There is at least as much drug abuse in this fine new Pakistani novel as you'll find in a Winona Ryder movie, and enough navel-gazing existentialism to fill half a Lisa Loeb album...
...school. To Tamara, 23, now stretched out on a beach on Ko Pha-Ngan island, those missives read like what they are: archival records of what has become, for her, a lost civilization. Torts. Civil procedure. What is he talking about? Dave would hardly recognize her now, with her navel ring, Balinese warrior tattoos and baggy Thai fisherman's pants. Tamara, this retiring, freckled brunette with a narrow body and tiny waist, this daddy's girl from La Jolla, Calif., roves the beach barebreasted in daylight and raves the night away at Full Moon parties or up at the Backyard...