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...Harvard's Jefferson Hall were taken - and a policeman by the door was going to make sure that none of the dozens of students gathered wistfully outside the entrance was going to sneak in. Those unlucky enough to have missed out on the two overflow rooms that offered large-screen projections of the event were advised to watch the live webcast. The draw-card of the evening at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences was no rock-star scientist, however; it was a cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adria at Harvard: The Top Chef and the Scientists | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...oblige; and Bettie, happy or not, obliged too. By modern standards, the results were mild. In films with explicitly descriptive catalog titles (Hobbled in Kid Leather Harness), a woman will be tied up, or ball-gagged, or put in the trunk of a car. This time, Bettie shared the screen with another woman, usually Roz Greenwood - the star couldn't put herself in bondage. But the performers never got hurt; at times you'll catch them giggling at the indignities they were asked to portray. If there's kink it's pure nostalgia. Kids today, seeing these (and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bondage Babe Bettie Page Dies at 85 | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...literary magazine. Her grades (second highest average in the class) earned her salutatorian status on graduation day. She married Billy Neal, a good-looking football player from another school; she attended and graduated from George Peabody Teachers College, then headed for Hollywood, where in 1945 she landed a screen test at 20th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bondage Babe Bettie Page Dies at 85 | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...Besides, any full-time movie lover is a closet Platonist. We believe that the truth is up there on the screen - that the shadows on the wall have more validity than the people who put them there. To her generations of fans, the real Bettie Page is that two-dimensional image, forever young, tender, sexy and smiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bondage Babe Bettie Page Dies at 85 | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...recent Wednesday, 432 people have called in. Nadezhda Kumyiny is one of them. She's phoning from a small village in the Kursk region, southeast of Lyudinovo. She wants to borrow 30,000 rubles - just over $1,000. The woman taking her call fills in the details on a screen. Experienced call-center workers can process a request and grant pre-approval in under six minutes, but Kumyiny can't remember her zip code, which slows everything down. Watching over the process is deputy operations director Viktoriya Selezneva, who says the economic crisis has yet to arrive. "The volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Big Chill | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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