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...particularly egregious element of the standard pricing scheme is the charge for receiving messages. All messages are charged twice, typically at a rate of 10 cents for the sender and five for the receiver, though receivers can pay as high as 25 cents. Worse, since the recipient has no choice to accept or reject an incoming message, cell phone users can be billed for receiving spam...
...Kwon Seo ’11, who is also a Crimson news writer. In addition to recounting how his mother, a spy for the North Korean government, was sentenced to death for expressing her disagreement with the government’s smearing of an innocent man, Choi described the standard of living in his home country. He spoke about the extreme lack of food in North Korea, describing how people would eat tree bark, plant roots, and weeds to stay alive. “He knows very well about the situation in North and South Korea,” said...
...with. He also offers some sage advice: "You don't have to believe in your government to be a good American. You just have to believe in your country." Both films, ultimately, also believe that Americans can benefit by learning the worst and the weirdest about themselves. By that standard, Harold and Kumar are pothead patriots in the first feel-good torture film. And Errol Morris deserves the Medal of Freedom...
...nominate Dr. Ignacio Ponseti. He developed a superior method for treating clubfoot, one that does not entail expensive surgery. His treatment has taken a long time to gain traction but is now becoming standard in the U.S. and worldwide...
...poison in our pesticides; Ohio's Cuyahoga River was so polluted it caught fire the year before. So when Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson called for a day of protest and teach-ins, 20 million people took part. In San Francisco, activists dumped oil in the reflecting pool at Standard Oil's headquarters; in Florida, college students put a Chevrolet on trial for poisoning the air, pronounced it guilty and sentenced it to death by sledgehammer. The Daughters of the American Revolution called it all "subversive...