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Gilman’s original intention was to describe the grandiose nature of Commencement day, a jubilee towards which many a nervous student and proud parent throng. Any surveyor of the Yard on Commencement day would clearly realize that “throng” is a much more appropriate...

Author: By Brian S Gillis | Title: Fair Harvard | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

Carbonrally's challenges offer a useful start. A recent contest involved giving up meat for two days, which would reduce carbon emissions by 13.2 lbs. Another called on competitors to unplug their computers every night for one month, which cuts CO2 by 51 lbs. Each contest illustrates a basic way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sizing Up Carbon Footprints | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

How does the X7 make foolproof crema? "Pressure--this is the old story," says Andrea Illy, 43, a grandson of the company's founder. After years of research, "we ended up discovering we had to change the way espresso was prepared." Thus was born illy's iperEspresso brewing system. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rating the Francis Francis X7 Espresso Machine | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

I was going to do it. It was just too tempting. I could imagine how it would feel—so smooth and sleek upon my body. The thought was riveting. And you know what? Dammit, I needed this.I walked over to her, glaring. As she looked up, I said...

Author: By Peter B. Weston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fashion, the Mirror, and Me | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

In the 1980s the U.S. had another paranoid, apoplectic fit about a rising Asian power. Twenty years ago, the bad guy wasn't China but an ascendant Japan, which was out to destroy the U.S. with its unfairly well built sedans, VCRs and microchips. The ballooning trade deficit with Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Must Stand Up to Japan (Oops, I Meant China) | 5/12/2008 | See Source »

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