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...Lusitania and the Titanic are often thought of as sister vessels; they in fact belonged to two separate owners, but the error is understandable. Both ships were huge: the Titanic was carrying 2,207 passengers and crew on the night it went down; the Lusitania had 1,949. The mortality figures were even closer, with a 68.7% death rate aboard the Titanic and 67.3% for the Lusitania. What's more, the ships sank just three years apart - the Titanic was claimed by an iceberg on April 14, 1912, and the Lusitania by a German U-Boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Titanic vs. Lusitania: How People Behave in a Disaster | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...ready to fall?” asks “Look Me in the Eye Sister,” the opening track of “Black Light,” Groove Armada’s sixth studio album. The lyric sums up the risk the band has taken on this new LP, abandoning their defining brand of filthy, glossy dance-pop and distancing themselves from their usual glow-stick-waving clientele. Instead, British duo Andy Cato and Tom Findlay offer up a more restrained, mature product, encompassing much of the greater subtlety and diversity of the whole world...

Author: By Colm Dubhrosa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Groove Armada | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...Allston Brighton Youth Hockey, Big Sister Association of Greater Boston, Family Nurturing Center, Friends of the Honan-Allston Library, Gardner Pilot Academy, West End House Boys Camp, and West End House Girls Camp also received grants...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Awards Allston Grants to Groups | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...Your brother and sister are also published writers. Is there ever a feeling of sibling rivalry or competition...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with John Banville | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...sister and 24-year-old nephew are out of luck. But there's still hope for her 13-year-old niece. Burnet grabs one of the last remaining pairs in the youth section and stops a 12-year-old girl who is shopping with her mother. "Do you mind trying these on?" she asks, hoping to discern whether the gloves could fit the hands of her niece. The girl slips on the mitts, looks at her hand and wiggles her fingers. "They're too tight," she says. Game over. Burnet says she'll keep searching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vancouver Goes Crazy for Red Mittens | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

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