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...December 2003, University Hall discovered that HUCEP’s precursor, a student-run outfit known as SafetyWalk, had been defunct for a large portion of the year without anyone knowing...

Author: By Eduardo E. Santacana, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campus Escorts Walk Lonely Road | 3/17/2005 | See Source »

...Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London springs to mind, but, as Wynhausen acknowledges, this compelling inside account has a more recent precursor. In 1998, American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich set off for low-wage America, posing as a housewife newly returned to work and taking whatever unskilled jobs she could get for her best-seller, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Inspired to try the same thing in Australia, Wynhausen took a year off work, invented a c.v. and started knocking on doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life at the Bottom | 3/1/2005 | See Source »

...subject. Two weeks ago, the White House secretly dispatched two National Security Council (NSC) aides to Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul armed with evidence that North Korea may have supplied a uranium compound to Libya for its weapons labs. The gaseous compound, known as uranium hexafluoride (UF6), is a precursor to bomb-grade uranium, something bombmakers feed into centrifuges to harvest the highly fissionable isotope uranium-235 (U-235) that is at the heart of an atom bomb. Though UF6 is hard to make, it's possible to track: forensic tests focus on trace isotopes, such as U-234, whose prevalence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Does North Korea Want? | 2/13/2005 | See Source »

...another step forward in what you might call the late Dali rehab project. Five years ago a show organized by the Zurich Kunsthaus, "Hypermental: Rampant Reality 1950-2000: From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons," toured Europe to spread the not unreasonable idea that Dali was a significant precursor of Pop and postmodernism. In the same spirit he is being re-examined by academics and curators as a pioneer of the artist as public performer, role model par excellence for Andy Warhol and Koons. It might not seem like a good thing to re-emerge as the original media whore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dali Goes to Rehab | 2/13/2005 | See Source »

...prime minister in order to scuttle his planned Gaza withdrawal. Abbas?s problem, however, is that the militants have made prisoner releases a fundamental condition for their ?hudna,? and its prospects are grim if he can?t deliver in a manner that satisfies them. So, even on a ?precursor? issue such as prisoner releases, Abbas?s needs and Sharon?s may be mutually exclusive. Following Tuesday?s talks, the two sides agreed simply to create a committee to further discuss Israel?s criteria for releasing prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Abbas and Sharon Succeed? | 2/8/2005 | See Source »

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