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...there were a junk food hall of fame, the original Pringles can would stand proudly next to a Toblerone pyramid in the exhibit on ingenious packaging shapes. Baur's canister has become a treasured symbol of snack culture around the globe, as recognizable as a Hershey bar or Coke can from Argentina to Zambia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Buried in a Pringles Can | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...winners of the platform wars stand to make billions selling devices, selling eyeballs to advertisers, selling services such as music, movies, even computer power on demand. Yet the outcome here is far more important than who makes the most money. The future of the Internet - how we get information, how we communicate with one another and, most important, who controls it - is at stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Rule the New Internet? | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...route to the 124th edition of The Game, demolishing its opponents and setting itself up for a perfect season and an Ivy championship. And though Cambridge fans reveled in their school’s first-ever game under the lights last fall, it hardly looked like their squad would stand much of a chance against the New Haven juggernaut later in the season.Both teams boasted 6-0 league records going into last year’s Game, for the first time since 1968. The stage was set for a historic battle, but most of the bookies weren?...

Author: By Karan Lodha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 4 Years, 3 Wins, 1 Game | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...Kennedy often quoted Archimedes, who explained the science of the lever by asserting, “Give me a place to stand, and I can move the world.” Harvard isn’t such a bad place to stand. It’s ripe with individuals who seek to change the world in all fields of study, in all walks of life. It’s brimming with opportunity and information. Nowhere is it easier to be idealistic, nowhere is it easier to believe that so much is possible. But now, more than ever, it needs...

Author: By Nicholas J. Melvoin | Title: A Reasoned Idealism | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...home, housing policies, advising, student life—were not the source of the few doubts I did harbor about coming to Harvard. It was the Boston Red Sox that were keeping me up at night.Could I, native New Yorker, a lifelong Yankees devotee, and bona fide Jetermaniac stand to reside in the heart of Red Sox Nation for the next four years of my life? Would I ever feel welcome in a place where the interlocking N-Y was off-limits? And what of Jeter? What about Jeter? This future was hard to imagine, but I also figured that...

Author: By Nicholas A. Ciani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life in Red Sox Nation | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

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