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...stride. Donning a retainer during the week and a mouthpiece on the weekends, Hanson is the Peter Parker of the Crimson football squad.His unassuming personality makes you forget he is a standout player, and his electrifying play makes you forget he is a freshman.Hanson is the quintessential normal guy off the field: quiet, reserved, and noticeably polite. A human evolutionary biology concentrator and aspiring doctor, Hanson is truly dedicated to his schoolwork off the field. You can usually find him sporting an abnormally large backpack as he fixes his retainer with his index finger. Neither his size nor his demeanor...

Author: By Evan Kendall, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Frosh Cornerback Making Waves for Crimson | 10/28/2008 | See Source »

...accounts. Students can reach the service through a link in the upper left-hand corner of HCL’s Web site. Participating librarians undergo a 10-minute training session to practice instant messaging through Meebo. During the service’s hours, they answer questions while conducting their normal duties so that productivity does not decrease. Questions asked through these online chats have been short and simple, and usually consist of queries about library hours or the availability of a specific book, according to Joe Bourneuf, the head of the reference section in Widener Library. Bourneuf also said that...

Author: By Ellen X. Yan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Librarians Answer Questions Online | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...close to a cloth surrogate mother rather than one made of wire, even when the wire "mother" carried a food bottle. Harlow's work and subsequent studies have led psychologists to stress the need for warm physical contact from caregivers to help young children grow into healthy adults with normal social skills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science Says We Really Are What We Drink | 10/26/2008 | See Source »

...doubtful of the value of "ecotourism." It seemed harmless at best, a scam at worst - a way to assuage the guilty conscience of travelers spending thousands of dollars to jet off to exotic locales. It was never clear to me, for instance, whether ecotravel was really any different from normal travel, except maybe for the involvement of more elephants and fewer cocktails on the beach. (And not even that, necessarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Ways to Find an Authentic Ecotour | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...irony is that nobody would have been any the wiser if Osborne had not leaked the content of a private conversation with Mandelson to a journalist. Mandelson, he said, had "dripped pure poison" about Blair's successor, Brown. In the normal course of events, that would scarcely have merited a paragraph in the British press. Mandelson and Brown had been embroiled in bitter feuding since the mid 1990s, when Mandelson backed Blair over Brown for the Labour leadership. But Brown's surprise move to recall Mandelson to government trained the spotlight back on their relationship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corfugate Scandal Cheers Gloomy Britons | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

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