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...townspeople and professors bake cakes for the winners of the freshman cake race and students boast that scattered around the campus are dollar bills held down by rocks, tangible evidence of an honor code so entrenched that if a dollar falls on campus soil, it stays there until the owner claims it. Kenyon in Ohio includes a paragraph in its acceptance letter that is entirely personal to the particular student: good job on the essay, nice season in basketball. The big schools can't do that--"and it's making a difference," says Sharon Merrow Cuseo, dean at Los Angeles...
...clunky M-16 rifles that looked as if they had served in Vietnam--the units aren't a match for either Israel or Hizballah. Locals who gathered along the road to welcome the army as it passed agreed. "It's great that the army is here," says Hassan Hashim, owner of the Sunset, a bombed-out restaurant in Tibnine, where the 11th Brigade set up headquarters. "But the only ones who can stop the Jews are Hizballah...
...five counts of child pornography, after the suspect failed to appear in court. (It isn't yet certain that warrant was for the same John Mark Karr, but it seems likely.) The name John Karr is also associated with the online domain PowerWurks.com, apparently launched in 1996, whose owner claimed to be running a child-friendly company but also seemed to be using the e-mail address to trawl for young girls on the Internet...
...Their reconstruction system relies on an intimate knowledge of the damaged neighborhoods and a reputation for efficiency and incorruptibility. Munir showed TIME detailed diagrams of the buildings in Haret Hreik with files listing the inhabitants of each building, the size of their apartments, whether the resident was an owner or renter, and phone numbers of those who could afford phones. All a resident has to do is show up at the school -with or without identification, deeds, or leases -ˇ and a Hizballah representative assigned to their building checks to make sure that their claim was legitimate. Very few people...
...Nick Denton, owner of Gawker Media, could not have chosen a better person for editor of the tech time-saver blog, Lifehacker. Gina Trapani has her hands in numerous projects: contributing to leading technology magazines, running her own personal weblog and filmmaking. With a demanding lifestyle, Trapani understands the necessity to make life easier. With the help of two editors, RSS feeds and aggregators like De.licio.us, Lifehacker publishes 18 to 19 "Lifehacks" a day. TIME.com talked with Trapani about what it means to "Geek to Live" and the future of personal publishing software. Lifehacker is also one of TIME.com...