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Midterms aren’t the only things making Organic Chemistry students sick this semester—one premed sophomore was recently diagnosed with a case of conjunctivitis that he blames on goggles he wore during lab. “That was a damper big time,” complains...

Author: By Elizabeth C. Pezza, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sweet Burn! | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

The Cubans keep those cars running because they have to. When the revolution of 1959 deposed Fulgencio Batista, the U.S.-backed authoritarian dictator, and installed a socialist government with land reform ambitions, the American reaction was swift and uncompromising. The Cuban embargo, at first a stopgap punitive measure, sank into...

Author: By Elise Liu | Title: Tear Down This Embargo | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

Martin and his ever-dwindling allies in Congress argue that this kind of government-encouraged media consolidation policy is needed to help newspapers ailing in the Internet revolution. However, instead of addressing these new challenges, the policy represents a continuation of media concentration that we have already seen in ownership...

Author: By Mel King | Title: Asleep at the Digital Switch | 3/4/2008 | See Source »

Coincidentally, on the very same day in California, the other state that understands what it is like to routinely plunge into near and total catastrophe, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was announcing a quiet revolution. Stunned by what he had recently seen in his own state--neighbors saving one another from wildfires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citizen Soldiers | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

But Rent didn't exactly start a revolution. Broadway continues to do robust business; total attendance climbed 2.7% last year, to a record high of 12.3 million. But the vast majority of hit musicals since Rent, from The Producers to Jersey Boys, still earn their money the old-fashioned way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life After Rent | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

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