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There are framed photos of ballerinas all around the mirror. Most of them are just of the girls’ bodies, the frame holding only downward pointed toes to skyward pointed chin, jumping and bending in their tutus. Some of them show faces, but I like the non-face ones...

Author: By Kathleen E. Hale, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FICTION: Finagled | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

Some experts dismiss all studies of Internet use as flawed, since there is no reasonable way to control for the myriad variables that may affect such research. For its part, Facebook declined to address the specific findings of the new study but issued a statement on Monday, April 13, saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Facebook Users Share: Lower Grades | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

On the future of weapons of mass destruction: "Now pointed at Japan, North Korea's missiles will one day target the United States and China. The missiles of Pakistan fallen into the hands of fundamentalists will threaten first India, then Europe. Those of Hezbollah - in other words, Iran - that now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the World Will Look Like by 2050 | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

Even more revealing of Iowa’s true progressivism is its history. As Pat Murphy, the speaker of the Iowa House, and Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal pointed out in a statement lauding the verdict, gay marriage is only the most recent issue on which Iowa has been...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky | Title: Matters of the Heart(land) | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

But as Columbia economic professor Nouriel Roubini pointed out in a recent report written for private clients, car sales in China have been "artificially boosted on a temporary basis by incentives" and so are unlikely to sustain their rise. Similarly, a spike in purchases of white goods in China's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is China's Economy Strong Enough To Save the World? | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

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