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...described the end of last semester as a downward spiral. Reading became a challenge; articulating thoughts and communicating with friends followed suit. Meanwhile, she withdrew from loved ones. She had been previously diagnosed with clinical depression, but this was a new and frightening experience...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brain Break | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...thought,] ‘I can’t write because I can’t think and if I can’t think, why am I alive?’” she said. “It was a huge spiral; it was the biggest kind of slippery slope you could imagine...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brain Break | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...Kehl-Cremers’s “Architektique” was an enormous spiraling cylindrical structure that hung from the gallery ceiling. The structure served as a canvas for her light animation and enveloped her viewers, who stood in the spiral, in an “audio-visual” experience. Animated waves of light oscillated up and down the spiral, as if choreographed to the sound of Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata for piano. Although more traditional listeners may have cringed at this reinterpretation of one of Beethoven’s most famed works, Hageb?...

Author: By Alyssa A. Botelho, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hagebölling Explores New Intermedia | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...Americans leave, his goal - like Islamabad's - being to protect his power. And the arrival in Washington of the Obama Administration signaled the onset of the endgame. Driven by a desire to conclude America's fiscally burdensome wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and alarmed by the downward security spiral in Afghanistan, the Obama Administration put Karzai on notice that failure to tackle the corruption that was deemed to be fueling the insurgency would jeopardize his ties with Washington. And in the weeks leading up to last August's election, U.S. officials in Afghanistan were widely perceived to be backing rival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: Why Karzai Is Pushing Back Against the U.S. | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...closest thing physicists have to a testable "theory of everything." But many theoreticians feel that even if the Higgs boson exists, the Standard Model is unsatisfactory; for instance, it is unable to explain the presence of gravity, or the existence of something called "dark matter," which prevents spiral galaxies like our Milky Way from falling apart. Even the mighty Higgs cannot explain those mysteries - though through telescopes and observation, we know they exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Collider Matters: In Search of the 'God Particle' | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

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