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...privilege of meeting Sen. Obama during his visit. Wide-eyed, I shook his hand. He then proceeded to give my older brother a fist-pound. This was long before his “terrorist fist jab” became all the rage...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Going Gaga for Obama | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...surmise that it's accompanied by a propaganda department directive barring the city papers from covering the event so they have to use the official version." Bandurski believes that the credibility of market-oriented papers, like the Southern Metropolis Daily, is significantly higher than that of the older papers, whose readership has been steadily declining for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Taxi Strikes: A Test for the Government | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...prerequisite. But on a good day, only six of the school's 14 computers worked. He never knew which ones until he sat down and searched for a flicker of life on the screen. "It was like Russian roulette," says Rhodes, a tall young man with an older man's steady gaze. If he picked the wrong computer, the teacher would give him a handout. He would spend the rest of the period learning to use Microsoft Word with a pencil and paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhee Tackles Classroom Challenge | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...made of. One ingredient in most fake firs is polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a plastic that is difficult to recycle. And while new artificial trees pose little threat to children's health, Mike Schade, the PVC-campaign coordinator for the activist group Center for Health, Environment and Justice, notes that older plastic trees tend to have higher levels of lead, a potent neurotoxin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O Christmas Tree | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...knowing many of its basic tenets and stories (half of U.S. high school seniors think Sodom and Gomorrah were married). That may be why religion doesn't stick once they go off to college: a UCLA study published in 2007 found that undergrads become less observant as they get older, with 44% of incoming freshmen attending religious services frequently, compared with just 25% of juniors. At the same time, however, religion becomes more important to them, with 50% of juniors saying a spiritual life is very important or essential, compared with 42% of freshmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Winchester | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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