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...Gansu, on the border with Tibet, works in a mine less than a mile from the shaft in Zuoyun County where the 57 miners drowned. "No, I'm not scared," he says, although he looks it, a frown creasing his forehead and his fingers restlessly juggling his cigarette pack and lighter. Xie says he's confident that the central government is doing its best to protect miners. "I hear the government regulations say that production at illegal mines will be stopped and the mines blown up. I'm sure the State Council in Beijing will order that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where The Coal Is Stained With Blood | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...gunmen had smashed in his front door and ransacked the house. Alaa, a Shi'ite television producer who was at work at the time, believes that Sunni militants wanted to kill him for covering Saddam's trial. And so, as hundreds of Iraqis do each day, Alaa decided to pack up his things and flee. At the time he wasn't sure where he was going or who would take him in. Now he finds himself sharing a two-room apartment with people who were complete strangers just weeks ago, in a country he knows little about--but that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweden: A haven from war confronts the price of generosity | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...race for the title and that elusive automatic NCAA tournament berth that goes with it, the Harvard men’s basketball team (11-15, 4-8 Ivy) will hit the road this weekend to cap off another year in the middle of the pack of the Ivy League. Fresh off its 50-43 victory over Princeton last Saturday night, which snapped a five-game losing streak, the sixth-place Crimson will face Cornell (15-11, 8-4 Ivy) in Ithaca, N.Y at 7 p.m. tonight. Tomorrow, Harvard will head to New York City to take on Columbia...

Author: By Kevin C. Reyes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Staggers Into Last Weekend | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...knew peanut butter could pack such a punch? And how do you get rid of all of it anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning Up Peter Pan's Mess | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

...once, but have trouble doing one in depth. (If we do only one, people might think we actually care about it, and God forbid that might happen.) Irony is the easiest way of doing something without fear of being judged. Irony is safe, and we like safe.Consider the Frat Pack comedies, which regularly spoon-feed ’80s rock songs to young moviegoers. “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” had Asia’s “Heat of the Moment,” “Old School” had Whitesnake?...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clinging to the Classics | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

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