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There's a dark little joke exchanged by educators with a dissident streak: Rip Van Winkle awakens in the 21st century after a hundred-year snooze and is, of course, utterly bewildered by what he sees. Men and women dash about, talking to small metal devices pinned to their ears. Young people sit at home on sofas, moving miniature athletes around on electronic screens. Older folk defy death and disability with metronomes in their chests and with hips made of metal and plastic. Airports, hospitals, shopping malls--every place Rip goes just baffles him. But when he finally walks into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...with headquarters in Kendall Square.Greenbaum and Ingber, who are in the process of starting an official student group for stand up comedians, performed in the show along with a number of Harvard students and some students from Tufts and Northeastern Universities. The results, though initially awkward, ended in a rip-roaringly irreverent time for all.THE SHOW BEGINSBefore the show even started, the audience was worked up.Despite the “no food or drink” rule, alcoholic beverages in various containers seemed to be prevalent. After allowing some time for the crowd to work itself into a Bacchic fever...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First Stand Up Show Very Risqué | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

...great and ominous things for him, but his most pressing thought is the rescue of his small son and very pregnant wife from the bottom of a well-cave combo where they were hiding during the sacking of their home. Luckily, nature, the fates, and his supernatural ability to rip arrows out of his torso conspire to help him thwart his own imminent immolation...

Author: By Anna K. Barnet, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: Apocalypto | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

...continues to charm with its less performance-based attitude - my desire was to see what the Xbox and PS3 could do in the way of movies, music and other entertainment. I tethered both of them to a smokin' 46-in. Sharp 1080p high-definition LCD TV and let them rip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sony PlayStation 3 vs Microsoft Xbox 360 with HD DVD Player | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

...Speaker-to-be puts it in more graphic terms. At lunch with a group of TIME correspondents a few months ago, she said Republican attacks on her would not work, because she wouldn't let them. "If people are ripping your face off," she said, picking at a chicken salad dressed only with lemon wedges, "you have to rip their face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Nancy Pelosi Get The Message? | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

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