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...Another cranky presbyterian seems anything but entertained by the BBC. At a September press conference in Downing Street, Gordon Brown gestured to a journalist near the front of the throng, indicating that it was his turn at the microphone. As the journalist identified himself, Brown motioned him to stop. The press conference had barely begun and the Prime Minister had already answered questions from four BBC correspondents. Now here was a fifth. Brown didn't care that each journalist represented different BBC outlets catering to different audiences: to him, the BBC was the BBC and enough was enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad News at the BBC | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

Brian Place didn't think about breast cancer when he found a lump near his left nipple. He thought about rugby. The lump, he figured, might be an injury from colliding with another player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Get Breast Cancer Too | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...when students will finally be able to dress their professors in drag is drawing near, thanks to the bright minds in Computer Science 50, “Introduction to Computer Science I.” CS 50 student Or Gadish ’10 created a program for his first problem set that enables students to put earrings, masks, and gaudy makeup on the course instructor, David J. Malan ’99. Friends want Gadish to expand the program to other professors, like Economics guru Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw...

Author: By Samantha L. Connolly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playing With Your Professor | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...started out as an OK weekend, except the San Diego Chargers weren't playing and the weather had been in the bone chilling 60s. Then came the first flames, in one area appropriately named the Witch near Ramona. All of a sudden places we long-timers never knew even had a name became labeled. The new monikers still don't help any of us know exactly where the neighborhoods are. But we can smell them now. They are choking us. Within 24 hours, nine fires were ravaging the San Diego area. Paradise was Apocalypse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silver Lining in San Diego | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...early critic of the state's fire response, Orange County fire chief Chip Prather, had nothing but accolades for Schwarzenegger on Wednesday. His "personal attention" to firefighters battling the blazes "is inspiring - knowing the guy at the top is there with them," Prather said at a news conference near Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cue Disaster, Cut to Schwarzenegger | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

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