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Siberia, 1919. Enter, staggering across the tundra, a half-starved revolutionary escaped from a Russian prison camp. Already onstage are a marooned regiment of Czech soldiers, a sexy lady photographer and a bizarre Christian sect of people whose zeal leads them to castrate themselves. With these chess pieces Meek stages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 6 Great Tales of the Past | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

Randall claims that these dimensions could be infinitely large provided that space has a warped geometry. In effect, we could be living in a three-dimensional pocket of higher dimensional space. Randall refers to these pockets in space as branes. Like a bead on a wire that can only move...

Author: By Adrian J. Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Supersymmetry and Parallel Dimensions | 1/6/2006 | See Source »

But all that pales in comparison to what the foundation has done for the public imagination. For decades, the field of global health had languished, and there was a consensus that little could be done to change the fate of the poorest of the poor. Jim Kim, until recently director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Riches to Rags | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

Ahh, television. The opiate of the masses. Three Crimson writers offer their thoughts about this year’s crop of poppies.2005’s Worst New “Shows”5. “Taradise”Tara Reid’s “Wild...

Author: By Alex C. Britell, Jessica C. Coggins, and Kevin Ferguson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: TVWATCH:YearInReview | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

Arguably, the term “homophobia” lacks semantic accuracy when it merely refers to an aversion to gays and lesbians instead of out-and-out fear. The queer rights movement has attempted to introduce more accurate terms—for example, heterosexism, which suggests a bias against...

Author: By Ryan R. Thoreson | Title: Words, Words, Words | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

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