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Though the College's plans for January Experience activities may have fallen through, FlyBy has found the one way for you to prevent having to spend a month sitting at home in New Jersey with your family...concentrate in engineering! Thanks to a program organized by the SEAS, while your friends are sitting at home watching reruns of "The Office" next January, you (assuming you switch your concentration to engineering) could be in BRAZIL...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel | Title: Definitely the Best Reason to Concentrate in Engineering | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

...abandoned, dry and aged cattle, of which there are many, since killing cows is illegal in all but two states (the communist-ruled West Bengal and Kerala). "This way they are put to some use at least," says Rajeshwari. "And by replacing conventional sources of energy, they help prevent global warming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cows with Gas: India's Global-Warming Problem | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

...crisis may be over, but what is left is a reclamation job that will probably take years to complete, will still have a taxpayer price tag of over $1 trillion, and will leave America's largest financial firms as institutions of modest power and a regulated scope which will prevent them from looking anything like what they did two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Quickly Than It Began, The Banking Crisis Is Over | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...affordable alternatives in the supplement aisle. Vitamin sales rose nearly 8% this winter over the same period a year ago, according to the Chicago-based market-research firm Information Resources Inc., while the national chain Vitamin Shoppe reported a 20% surge in new customers seeking cheap ways to prevent illness and avoid expensive treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...judgment. He refuses to answer questions on policy, deferring instead to the ANC's executive committee. His coyness may be wise: those opinions he has aired have been startling. On trial for rape in 2006, a charge of which he was acquitted, he revealed he thought a shower could prevent HIV infection. Among his supporters, all that only adds to his appeal: Zuma has a populist following in the townships where his earthiness contrasts well with the élitism of Mbeki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why South Africa's Over the Rainbow | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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