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...early to tell how Obama's call to service will perform when put up against other great presidential pleas of the past. Long after Kennedy, President George H.W. Bush spoke out about "a thousand points of light," and President Bill Clinton founded AmeriCorps to recruit more young people into public service. All those efforts were relatively effective, for a time. But never before has a sitting President put so much faith in new technology to make it all happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Inaugural Internet Call to Service | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...archaeology for Rome, is pushing ahead with a proposal to recreate gladiator battles in or near the Coliseum. Dressed in original costumes and carrying actual swords and tridents (unlike the plastic and aluminum toy replicas used by the current hustlers), well-trained gladiator actors will be choreographed to perform historically accurate battles like those that ended in death two millennia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Gladiators Help Sell Rome's Coliseum? | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...minutes after the show was slated to begin, the black-clad lead singer, Chris XX. Powers, steps up to the microphone. “Hello everybody! How are you all doing tonight?” he says. The audience responds enthusiastically.Powers announces that the first song they will perform, entitled “Honest,” will be available on their EP, to be released by Veritas Records—”Harvard’s only student-run record label”—in January.He gives a shout-out to Tony M. Spaniola...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Veritas Aims for the Stars | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...because mosquitoes are sterilized using radiation, it's unclear whether they function exactly like untouched mosquitoes, so Hoy hopes that his team's findings can someday be used to acoustically test these lab-reared males to ensure they're as willing and competent as the wild males to perform the mating duet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mosquito Mating Song: Dengue Fever Duet | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

...Iraq. The Armed Services Committee report details the techniques used on one prisoner: "Military working dogs had been used against [Mohammed al-] Khatani. He had also been deprived of adequate sleep for weeks on end, stripped naked, subjected to loud music, and made to wear a leash and perform dog tricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bush Administration's Most Despicable Act | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

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