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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...love to feign insouciance about cancer, or to tell apocryphal stories about its apparently random nature - of some haggard two-pack-a-day smoker who lived to be 96, versus the exquisite gamine who never smoked, always used sunscreen and did yoga, but went in for a routine checkup and was told she wouldn't see her 25th birthday. But while it used to be difficult to know who would and who would not be its victims, cancer is easier to predict these days. Its causes are actually very well understood, and many types of the disease are preventable - which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Save Yourself | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...lost in a quagmire of numbers. The book, which should instead have been christened “75 Groups of People that Allow Me to Wax Statistics for 300+ Pages,” is a collection of figures from every place imaginable. The numbers come from a variety of random places, including a Time Magazine article on Myspace vixen Tila Tequila to a survey conducted by the American Academy of Dermatology on attitudes towards sunbathing. In his introduction, Penn asserts that “numbers will almost always take you where you want to go if you know...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Microtrends’ as Fun as Microeconomics and Half as Relevant | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...firing up an Internet Relay Chat program--software that connects them to a worldwide network of chat rooms. The next step is to make up a user name and find a chat room dedicated to credit-card fraud. There Sweetnurse verifies credit-card numbers--even numbers picked at random--to determine their credit limits and expiration dates, using the same types of automated programs deployed by credit-card companies and banks for that purpose. He jots down a number, then goes shopping. Usually he selects books, CDs and dvds for his collection, but he also claims to have bought such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-Commerce: The No-Payment Plan | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...book that a Harvard student might have a wet dream about reading (save “Threads of Passion”). Fortunately for the library creepsters, to get to some of our 90-plus libraries, you don’t even have to swipe in. You just flash a random card at a random security guard and walk in. In the Cabot Science Library, I like to use my library card from home. It’s blue. The Quad Library sometimes props the door open to get a nice breeze going. Admittedly, the non-ghetto libraries at Harvard have...

Author: By Jack F. Pararas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Library Security: FM’s Newest Cause | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...tear the song apart. The video opens with white-lipped, disembodied singing mouths, framed between shots of roadkill that’s been strewn across the velvet-black surface of its natural habitat. As if viewers weren’t visually stimulated enough, the director guides the audience to random shots of two of !!!’s members sporting pairs of nifty sunglasses. The video makes it clear, though, that !!! isn’t just a band that knows how to rock—they’re also a band that knows how to raise the dead. Necromancy...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: !!! | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

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