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At Harvard, freshmen have the reputation of doing so extensively. You will do all your reading, take verbatim notes in lecture, and make skyscraper-like stacks of flash cards to study for exams. Seniors in your sections will snicker at your youthful eagerness.

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Calendar of Your Year Ahead | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

Others, like MGM Mirage, are in too deep. The few operating cranes in town are scattered among the 9,500 construction workers still crawling over CityCenter, an $8.4 billion, five-skyscraper, ultra-luxury project that is the largest privately financed development ever in the U.S. Although the company has managed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Less Vegas: The Casino Town Bets on a Comeback | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

His name is Mr. Six - clever, right? - and his troll-like antics may prevent you from ever setting foot in a Six Flags park, no matter how exciting that Batman ride is. He first popped up in Six Flag ads in 2004, a geriatric sideshow obviously played by a younger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is Six Flags Targeting Kids with a Creepy Old Guy? | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

Another vision of an alternate Japan, based on a manga (by So Kitamura), this movie proposes that the country's rulers averted a multicontinental World War II by forging a truce with the U.S. the day after Pearl Harbor - as we say, it's a fantasy - thus allowing the nobility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian Film Fireworks for the Fourth | 7/4/2009 | See Source »

Sputnik burned up in the atmosphere, Berlin is now one city, but 25 years later, the Soviet-designed Tetris remains one of the most popular and ubiquitous video games ever created. It has sold over 125 million copies, been released for nearly every video-game platform of the past two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 25 Years of Tetris: From Russia With Fun! | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

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