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...morning of Dec. 8, several dozen volunteer newsies spread out across San Francisco to hawk copies of the city's brand new newspaper, the San Francisco Panorama. The 320-page doorstop, printed in full color on old-fashioned broadsheet paper, sold for $5 on the street and $16 in bookstores. With articles by Stephen King, Michael Chabon and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Robert Porterfield, the Panorama was an homage to the increasingly threatened - some would say obsolete - institution of print journalism. The paper's entire print run sold out in less than 90 minutes. (Read about the future...
...high that McSweeney's - the San Francisco-based publishing house behind the project - trucked in an extra 3,000 copies that it had intended to distribute nationally and ordered a second printing. One newsie near the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, sold out of the paper before he'd even gotten out of his car. A local bookstore had a waitlist that totaled more than 100 names. Dave Eggers, McSweeney's founder and Panorama's mastermind, was shocked. "I thought there'd be some excitement, but this went beyond anything I expected," he said. With traditional media outlets...
...popular belief that testosterone contributes to aggressive behavior in humans may be just that - a belief - according to a new study in the journal Nature. The paper suggests that the hormone may in fact lead to fair, and more altruistic, behavior in some situations, causing aggression only when people believe they are under its influence...
...prepares for her first long-term experience abroad at Oxford, she reflects on the many parts of Harvard that she will miss. “The toilet paper still remains miraculous,” she says. “I may actually steal some and take it with...
Everyone likes a little ice cream in their alcohol. We mean, alcohol in their ice cream. Get a scoop of eggnog before you finish that final paper...