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...current place to be seen in Seminyak. Lounge under the stars with a cocktail or a glass of wine while waiting for the dance floor to kick into high gear sometime around midnight. Hu'u Bar's international stable of DJs spin hot and cool, but never anything in between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Perfect Weekend in Seminyak, Bali | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...caliber gun and improved scope could employ "fire and forget" technologies including "fin-stabilized projectiles, spin-stabilized projectiles, internal and/or external aero-actuation control methods, projectile guidance technologies, tamper proofing, small stable power supplies, and advanced sighting, optical resolution and clarity technologies." In other words, bullets that, once fired at a specific target, fly themselves into it by changing shape. The new gun should be no heavier than the combined 46-lb. weight of the current $11,500 M107 sniper rifle and all its associated gear (including ammo, tripod, scope and slide rules for target calculations). (See pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pirates Beware: Soon Rifles That Kill from a Mile Away | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...benefits of Harvard’s presence in the neighborhood, many residents felt “hurt” when they discovered Harvard had been buying many properties in Allston under other company names without community knowledge or input. MacDaniel added that he saw it as “spin and dishonesty” when the University, apparently playing to community concerns that it was leaving property vacant, said 85 percent of its “leasable” property was already leased. The Crimson later reported that Harvard had not yet informed the public that 790,000 square feet...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Allston Community Deals with Development | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

...MacDaniel added that he saw it as “spin and dishonesty” when the University, apparently playing to community concerns that it was leaving property vacant, said 85 percent of its “leasable” property was already leased. The Crimson later reported that Harvard had not yet informed the public that 790,000 square feet of its property was deemed “non-leasable” because the spaces were either unfit for tenants or reserved for University construction plans...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Allston Residents Work To Find Voice as University Expansion Crawls Forward | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

...members of Congress who are overseeing the bailout funds question what spin doctors have to do with Liddy's stated mission. Representative Elijah E. Cummings, a Democrat on the House Oversight Committee that has investigated AIG, called the firm's p.r. payroll "a prime example of AIG misusing funds. Mr. Liddy should know, however, that all of the p.r. firms in the world will not distract us from getting to the bottom of what is really going on at AIG and how the company is spending taxpayer dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is AIG Spending Too Much on Public Relations? | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

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