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...their website: “Turn off TV and turn on Life.” Even when life consists of a paper due in 14 hours, a thesis due in 14 weeks and a crazy roommate, television is not the perfect antidote. It will suck you in and spit you out with a whole new value system, complete with an unnatural desire for a new hair color...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: Must-Flee TV | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...satisfied with three of those ungainly trophies - Best Album (for The Eminem Show), Best Male and Best Hip-Hop Artist. And for European fans who must wait another two months or more before 8 Mile arrives at the local cineplex, there was the consolation of a spit-and-polished live performance of Lose Yourself, the movie's showstopper and the best song of 2002 so far. If they can't see the movie yet, at least fans can buy the album. Unburdened by the weight of images and dialogue, they can ponder at leisure Eminem's attempt to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 8 Mile High and Rising | 11/17/2002 | See Source »

Tabling and testing in Quincy House, under signs pleading for people to “spit for science,” Chapman puts her subjects through very basic tests. They’re asked to anonymously fill out a survey and submit a sample of saliva to test current hormone levels. Chapman’s team photocopies students’ hands to test for a correlation between finger length ratios and testosterone levels. A larger difference between the fourth and second fingers indicates a greater prenatal exposure to the hormone. And if the joy of pure science doesn?...

Author: By Arielle J. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Are You Man Enough? | 11/7/2002 | See Source »

...gives a seminal description of his game: “I basically spit straight goon. Most people just regurgitate conventions and think they’re using words to communicate, so I come in with straight goon and girls don’t know what to do. These guys try to be smooth. I just come to New York and drop goon. And it works, bro.” We coin various expressions for PK-1’s courting: “Tossin’ goon…coughin’ goon…flingin’ goon...

Author: By Jacob Rubin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Adventures in Enthusiastic Idiocy | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

...explicit encouragement from Bangladesh's spiritual leaders. Mullah Obaidul Haque, head of the national mosque in Dhaka and a Jamaat associate, told a gathering of thousands in the capital last December: "America and Bush must be destroyed. The Americans will be washed away if Bangladesh's 120 million Muslims spit on them." So controversial were the BNP's partners in government and so infuriating did they find reports of rising fundamentalism that earlier this year Zia twice denied that there were any "Taliban" in her government, or even in Bangladesh. But a Bangladeshi government official tells TIME that while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deadly Cargo | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

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