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...Parade in New York City. By middle school, though, her parents' Pakistani culture had become uncool. "I wanted to fit in so bad," Ahmed says. For her, that meant trying to be white. She dyed her hair blond, got hazel contact lenses and complained, "I'm going to smell," when her mom served fragrant dishes like lamb biryani for dinner. But at Villanova University in Philadelphia, Ahmed found friends from all different backgrounds who welcomed diversity and helped her, she says, become "a good balance of East meets West." Now 23, she and her non-Asian roommates threw a party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Between Two Worlds | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...difference between human interaction and even the most sophisticated educational toy is that interpersonal exchanges engage all the senses?sight, sound, smell, taste and, very important, touch. "People tend to forget that children are very tactile and their most sensitive part is their mouth," says David Perlmutter, a neurologist and author of the forthcoming book, Raise a Smarter Child by Kindergarten. "Babies need to mouth things and to smell, to have rich sensory experiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Sharp: Want a Brainier Baby? | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...stuck in less-than-ideal places. Combine the two and you’ll recreate the plight of Cabot E-entryway residents and their creepy manual elevators that often get stuck between floors when Quadlings don’t close the manual doors correctly. At least they smell better than the elevators in 20 DeWolfe.Six: Stop overzealous green Quincy-ites (after “fixing” the mural). During the spring of 2004, Quincy residents raised money to buy a week’s worth of wind power in a final push for the Green Cup (eventually...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Christmas Wishlist 2005 | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...Maier writes in his book that Cramer started each day with the statement, “I love the smell of money in the morning” and would smash computer monitors, throw chairs, and bring employees to the point of tears if prices fell later...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cramer’s About More Than ‘Money’ | 12/16/2005 | See Source »

...fireplace, completing the entirety of “Hamlet” in only 50 minutes. Event organizer and Lowell English tutor Rebecca S. Erwin explained later that Act II was skipped altogether to avoid the politics within the play and to fast-forward to the more exciting scenes. The smell of pizza filled the room as actors prepared for the performance—not by rehearsing lines, but by eating and laughing about the props they were about to use. Erwin kicked off the show by dubbing all the participants “the official founding members of the Lowell...

Author: By Rebecca L. Ledford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hamlet Performed Off the Cuff | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

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