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...people will coo and ask to hold it. People want to physically touch things. And then I'll pull out a tattered sweater and will say, "Here's a sweater from somebody famous. You might want to put it on." Of course, everyone's suspicious, but then you offer them fifty bucks and most people will put their hands up. And then I'll say, "Would you still wear this sweater if you knew it belonged to Jeffrey Dahmer?" And the majority of hands shoot down. It's usually a very rapid response accompanied by nervous giggling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We're Superstitious | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...with human-like figures. “They address the big existential questions: what makes one human? Not human?” he explains. Schlozman also notes the moral lessons implicit in these movies. They warn of radiation risk and the dangers of conducting experimental tests on diseases; they offer a satirical commentary on governments that stand idly by in the midst of an apocalypse; they blatantly attack the emergence of materialistic tendencies even under dire circumstances.While Scholzman seeks to interpret the psychology of why viewers keep watching zombie films, he also gives thought to the neurology of zombies. According...

Author: By Will L. Fletcher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Science on Screen' Reanimates the 'Living Dead' | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...always had the desire to be a teacher. There are teachers that can just strike you down... I don’t think that’s useful,” Williamson says. Inspired by a fan who asked her to write a song about abuse, Williamson regularly offers songwriting workshops, advising her students to “come from the personal, [and] aim for the universal.” She’ll be conducting a similar workshop for Berklee students. Before being contacted by Berklee, Williamson had been “filling up the well...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women In Music | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...editors: We are deeply troubled by the administration’s recently announced decision not to offer January term programming and to require students who wish to remain in Harvard housing to submit an application demonstrating a “need to be on campus.” Foremost, we’re concerned that requiring students to justify their presence on campus will subject students to real hardship. It will be easy enough for athletes, international students, and thesis writers to present their cases; it will be considerably harder for students who have no readily identifiable reason...

Author: By The resident tutors Of mather house | Title: Those Left Out by J-Term | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...continue to mount, organizations such as Oxfam and Médicins Sans Frontières have scrambled to tighten their security operations in dangerous missions, by corralling their staff into guarded complexes ringed with barbed wire, for example, and pooling intelligence with other humanitarian groups. Still, the new tactics offer no guarantees against well-armed foes. "The attacks have much more to do with the aid workers' status, rather than because they have assets or cash on hand," says Adele Harmer, research associate for the Humanitarian Policy Group at ODI and one of the authors of the report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report: Attacks on Aid Workers on the Rise | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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