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...benefits of living off-campus are so numerous that I’m surprised students aren’t moving out of their rat-infested walk-throughs in droves. Here are just...

Author: By Lena Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Renouncing the River Gods | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...when General Khan heard the tinny, rat-tat-tat music welling up from the crowded lanes of the bazaar, he saw it as a sign that normality was returning to Peshawar. "We killed a lot of them," he says, referring to the militants known as the Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) or the Pakistani Taliban who are at war with Islamabad while their Afghan brethren are hiding in these same saw-blade mountains to launch attacks on NATO forces across the border. The bombings are less frequent and the kidnappings, he says, have gone "from 50 a day to zero." Bringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Taliban War: Bringing Back the Music | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...creative burgers there - burgers that mix slow-cooked meat or shredded meat. I'm still going to do a burger joint, as soon as I can find the right space. I'm working really hard on it. I want the burger to be classier. I want it to be Rat Packy and elegant. I want to make the slider sexy - because anything, once you shrink down the size, becomes adorable. I want a classy burger joint. I'll have a slider for you. We'll call it the O burger. You can fill in what you want the O burger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rachael Ray in Praise of Burgers and Our Culinary Tastes | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...Cape Fear), who Teddy believes was responsible for Dolores' death by fire. Quizzing the patients, he gets evidence that sounds like death threats: a man (Jackie Earle Haley, indelible in a fleeting role) tells Teddy there's a grand plot closing in on the marshal, that he's "the rat in a maze"; one woman scribbles the urgent word run on his notepad. His partner Chuck discounts the testimony, saying, "How're you gonna believe a crazy guy?" But Chuck too is under Teddy's suspicion; they'd never met before getting on the island ferry, where Chuck greeted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shutter Island: Engrossing, Not Enthralling | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...feed themselves, the soldiers aimed for macaws with their slingshots. They killed borugos, a kind of Amazon rodent that looks like a cross between a squirrel and a rat and is a popular source of jungle protein. They also bagged monkeys, which they would stew for hours before braising over a fire in an attempt to cook away the gamey taste. But the meat was stringy and tough and as they gnawed on the primates' tiny arms and legs, some of the soldiers felt like they were eating their young. Others couldn't keep anything down. Now, drifting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Colombia, A Bungled First Rescue Attempt | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

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