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The team’s best defender, Lin cannot be asked to take on big men (though, on occasion he found himself guarding Foote one-on-one Saturday night, to disastrous results).

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Big Red Contains Crimson | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates flies around the world to war zones and allies, to China and Russia and Suriname, on a Cold War relic called the Doomsday Plane. Forged in the 1970s by Boeing, it was designed to stay aloft even in the midst of nuclear war. It's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is Robert Gates Really Fighting For? | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

“Sherlock Holmes” functions more as a nod to the logical bent of Conan Doyle’s series than as a serious portrayal of it. From impossibly large explosions whose implausibility is exceeded only by the number of proximal characters who manage to survive them...

Author: By Yair Rosenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sherlock Holmes | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

I like French fries, and I probably shouldn't eat them very often. I actually came up with a rule: Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. One reason we struggle with obesity today is that special-occasion foods like French fries, cakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Michael Pollan | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

Despite the billions the government spent on consumer-spending incentives to stimulate industrial output - like implementing cash-for-clunkers subsidies for new car buyers - the schemes didn't lead to massive growth in manufacturing. Industrial production and service-sector activities fared no better than the overall 0.1% growth figure for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's Out of Recession: So Why No Cheers? | 1/26/2010 | See Source »

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