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...TFs” instead of “TAs,” “concentrations” instead of “majors,” and “proctors” and “tutors” instead of “RAs,” Disney World has “cast members” instead of “employees,” “guests” instead of “customers,” and “costumes” instead of “uniforms...

Author: By Kristin E. Kitchen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Second Most Magical Place on Earth | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

...RAS-MATAZZ You may enjoy raspberries with pancakes, but how about eating them with, well, everything? A study of lab rats suggests that consuming 2 cups of black raspberries daily may help ward off esophageal cancer. The berries contain certain compounds, like anthocyanins, and minerals and vitamins that are anticarcinogenic. If that many raspberries are hard to swallow, try mixing them with strawberries, another berry with a bang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Nov. 12, 2001 | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

...just about anything one can't imagine in a machine?eggs, porn, rotgut?and you see their familiar glow on remote mountaintops and temple grounds. Now, like the automobile and the breadmaker, the coin-op vendor is getting way smarter. The new crop is rigged up with video came-ras, touch-panel computer screens and optical sensors. And these are more than just bells and whistles. In many new models, wireless chips improve efficiency by alerting vendors when a machine is running out of Pocari Sweat or chips. This generation will also be able to hawk digital wares, from music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vending the Rules | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...absence of policies, a well-honed p.r. campaign by aides, directed at journalists and visiting Western officials, has created the impression of a cool, crisp and ambitious young leader. Skeptical observers saluted his behind-the-throne power with the nickname "Ras-Putin." He has put the word out that he will be an economic reformer, a promise that impresses U.S. officials more than their West European counterparts. Yet a few weeks ago, his economic think tank was still saying that its program would not be ready until the middle of the year 2000. His track record as Prime Minister suggests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Tears For Boris | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...brought the world Hobo Junction, the Left Coast's indie response to the Wu-Tang Clan, drops his third album, The Hit List. Since his first solo album, The Boxcar Session, Saafir's been busy. Between teaming up with Ras Kass and Xzibit (who'll headline the Lyricist Lounge show in Boston on the 18th) to form the Golden State Warriors crew and recording Trigonometry, his second album, under the pseudonym Mr. No-No, one wonders where the Saucee Nomad has had time to come up with the tight lyrical flow and musicality a worthy hip-hop album necessitates...

Author: By Franklin Leonard, | Title: Album Review: The Hit List by Saafir | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

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