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...circulate: Girls received the gift of snowfall in their Winthrop room; blockmates spent an afternoon bailing water out of their Kirkland House second-story window after their bathtub faucet wouldn’t turn off; Adams House students sleep with earplugs because of noisy heating pipes; showers in Kirkland spew out blackish water; doorknobs come off in the hands of Eliot House residents; melting snow leaks into a fourth-story room of a five-story section of Lowell House (of course, the water first had to make it through the layer of asbestos in the ceiling!); and that smell...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Building Character, Not Houses | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

...health policy; and bad foreign policy to boot. At a time when farm incomes are at an all-time high, the legislation would perpetuate a system that redistributes billions of dollars from taxpayers to wealthy farmers, particularly the huge industrial operators who devour the most water and fossil fuels, spew the most pesticides, erode the most soil, grow the most fattening foods, and use their handouts to buy out smaller farmers and depopulate rural America. Only 1% of Americans are farmers, and the largest 5% of those farmers vacuum up three-fourths of the subsidies. The subsidies also flout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Farm Bill Stalls — for Now | 11/17/2007 | See Source »

...audience momentarily laughed at Ahmadinejad's remark that there are no homosexuals in Iran, he conveniently omitted mention of the applause throughout the speech. Klein's commentary adds to Ahmadinejad's good run in recent weeks: an invitation to speak at a prestigious university, prominent platforms from which to spew his propaganda and now Western "intellectuals" minimizing the danger and challenges he poses to the world community. Ahmadinejad may be no Hitler, but nuclear arms in the hands of fanatics who have no compunction about setting them off among civilian populations is not something to be taken lightly. I became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...columbia audience momentarily laughed at Ahmadinejad's remark that there are no homosexuals in Iran, he conveniently omitted mention of the applause throughout the speech. Klein's commentary adds to Ahmadinejad's recent good run: an invitation to speak at a prestigious university, prominent platforms from which to spew his propaganda and now Western "intellectuals" minimizing the danger and challenges he poses. Ahmadinejad may be no Hitler, but nuclear arms in the hands of fanatics who have no compunction about setting them off among civilian populations is not something to be taken lightly. I became aware of terrorism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...bacterium's genetic machinery and within minutes start to pump out hundreds of copies of themselves. When enough progeny build up inside the cell, the phages produce an enzyme that chews through the cell wall, causing it to explode with the force of a popping champagne cork and spew out the viral intruders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Drug-Resistant Bugs | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

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