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...thirds of adults qualifying as overweight or obese - would suggest that the Scientific American article may have actually understated the addictiveness of junk food, not cocaine. Some addiction researchers might even argue that potato chips - and other high-fat, high-calorie foods - are more effective than a crack pipe in terms of keeping "users" hooked long-term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Eating Junk Food Really Be an Addiction? | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

...Jack White—who spends most of the film smiling like a satanic Cheshire cat—could dress mostly in red jump suits and walk around surrounded by bowler-hat-wearing, bag-pipe-playing roadies without seeming obviously fake. The Stripes’ utter commitment to their art is evident throughout the musical component of the documentary, where the White Stripes put on a series of impassioned concerts in diverse and bizarre venues. Jack and Meg begin each show, after brief bag pipe introductions, by marching straight onto stage (or lane, in the case of a concert...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The White Stripes | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

...dating back to the 8th century - a wily shoemaking sprite who enticed people with untold riches and then cunningly snatched them away at the last moment -the leprechaun was transformed by advertisers and Hollywood producers in the 1950s and '60s into something altogether different: a gaudy, top-hat-wearing, pipe-smoking creature with a trademark piercing cry of "Top o' the morning!" The leprechaun made popular by Lucky Charms commercials and movies and musicals like Darby O'Gill and the Little People and Finian's Rainbow may be beloved in places like the U.S., but not in Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's New Museum for Leprechauns | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...hugging, jumping, swaying Mather patriots. This House has not one, but two mascots, a gorilla and Leighdra, a lion named after outgoing House Masters Sandra Naddaff and Leigh Haffrey. Mather-Open overflows with YouTube recommendations, inside jokes, lively debates, and requests for everything from decongestant pills to pipe cutters, all of which are always promptly answered. Mather invented the Housing Day video when it sent “Mather House: The Movie” to all freshmen in 2008, and it continues to dominate the genre. But perhaps the greatest demonstration of Mather spirit...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Housing Market Reviews: Mather House | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

Metal arm bands are neatly arranged by a pipe bag underneath a looming five-foot portrait of its owner: Sitting Bull, the former Lakota Sioux holy war chief who famously led the Lakota and Cheyenne troops to victory in the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Nearby, old arrows are suspended in mid-air—as if shooting out from a propped bow—under an airbrushed banner depicting “thunderbirds,” mythological messengers of thunderstorms revered by Lakota members as spiritual sources for energy in battle...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar and Julia L Ryan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: National Treasures | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

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