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...majority of the candidates created Facebook groups to garner support and promote their platforms, many of which promise improvements to Harvard’s facilities. Many are calling for dorms with cable television, common rooms with plasma televisions, and even sidewalks that aren’t covered in puddles when it rains. Food is also a popular topic, with many UC-hopefuls calling for extended brain breaks, longer dining hall hours, and more options for spending Crimson Cash...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Frosh Pitch UC Bids Via Internet | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...fence becomes a double line, then a single tall fence, until it reaches the rugged Gila mountains. Beyond the range, the fence resumes, but now it's in the deep Sonoran Desert. The design here is steel posts, about 4 ft. (1 m) high, filled with concrete to thwart plasma torches and linked by surplus railroad iron. This fence is intended to stop cars, not walkers--but anyone crossing out here must be ready for a parched hike of 30 miles (48 km) or more, through cactus lands and bombing ranges, to the nearest road. That's a dwindling population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Wall of America | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...hear many complaints about boredom from Tucson Sector agents. Lukeville is getting a double barrier, Dart explained, but "as fast as they put it up, on the southern side they take plasma torches and cut holes." There's a vehicle barrier south of the tiny town of Menninger's, but drug smugglers use hydraulic ramps to boost cars over for a quick dash into town. In the rolling pasturelands east of Nogales, the fence is a so-called Normandy barrier of crisscrossing railroad iron. Smugglers like to cut this fence with torches, then carefully put everything back in place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Wall of America | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...look like Hells Angels took over Garden Street every day. But Euro chic. 5) On dorm room doors, eye readers instead of keys. Manual locks are so passé. 6) Students will now get $600/semester in Board Plus. Greenhouse Café is going to have some long lines. 7) Plasma TVs mounted on dining hall walls, broadcasting pertinent information like which dishes require a fork. 8) Instead of “Savory Spotlights,” HUDS will fly someone’s mom in every week to actually do the cooking. 9) Make It Rain was decent, but PfoHo...

Author: By D. PATRICK Knoth, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Ways We'll See the Tuition Hike Come Back | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...farm where they are well fed and exercised. Still, the widely accepted idea that movies are recession-proof will be tested in new ways in coming months, as Indy and Batman do battle with stay-at-home entertainments people have already put on their credit cards, like iPods and plasma-screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood to Recession: Bring It! | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

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