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...Maybe you’ve been reading The Crimson since April just so you can stay completely up-to-date with the weekly antics of the Undergraduate Council. Maybe you’ve been stocking up on argyle sweaters, or maybe you’ve already bought a 20-pound snow-camping jacket for the long, dark months ahead...
Other nonprofits are catching on, offering flexible hours, leadership roles and assignments that tap individual skills. Habitat for Humanity, whose volunteers build homes for the poor, has begun organizing worker Care-A-Vans that travel the U.S., stopping here and there to pound nails. That setup holds special appeal to those looking for adventure, physical activity and tangible results. Peace Corps Encore allows former Peace Corps volunteers to sign on for stints of just a few months rather than two years--attracting folks who have flexible jobs or sabbaticals...
...introduced, and while its results are still not admissible in most criminal courts, it is at least based on a sound premise. Most of us lie easily, but we don't lie well, particularly when the truth could land us in hot water. Fibbing causes the heart to pound, breathing to accelerate and sweating to increase, and the polygraph measures all those things. Sometimes the machine works fine, but often the experience of being wired up to a piece of gadgetry and asked questions by an unfriendly stranger can produce the same symptoms as a lie. Moreover, the best liars...
...Older machines used to examine liquids were so large that they were generally anchored to labs. But given the portability of this 3.5-pound tool, the TSA could quickly deploy it in airports nationwide. The gadget is simple enough to use that airport screeners and security officials with just several hours of training could monitor suspicious materials in transit. In its latest iteration, the FirstDefender can identify 2,500 liquid and solid substances. The U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center issued a recent assessment of the new handheld as an effective portable tool in detecting dangerous substances, including sarin...
...tested positive for abnormal testosterone levels, a result confounding and dumbfounding, given that a number of prerace favorites were tossed from the Tour under a cloud of doping suspicion. Could he have been so brazen--or stupid? "I hoped there was a genuine hero in the making," says Dick Pound, head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), who is quick to add that people shouldn't convict Landis right away. Still, it's painful. "Oh God," he says, "another nosebleed for the sport...