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With the caveat that “as a reporter I would never put this in the paper,” Friedman jokingly suggested that Sandel had been one of the costumed protesters who hurled objects into store windows during the 1999 anti-globalization protests in Seattle. Addressing Sandel as “Mr. Dress-up-like-a-turtle-and-throw-a-stone-through-a-McDonald’s-window,” Friedman said that “by the end of this course you will concede that the problem is not that we have too much globalization...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Academic Stars Clash in Course | 2/8/2005 | See Source »

...firm got her a $630 selling price, and took just over $200 of that for itself. Welcome to the latest in eBay piggyback businesses. Fostered by eBay's breakneck growth in the U.S., leading independent drop-off businesses - offering to collect unwanted items through a network of store locations and trade them on eBay for a share of the sale price - are now shipping as many as 5,000 items per week in the U.S. And with eBay business outside of the U.S. now soaring - international transaction revenue leapt 64% to $344 million in the last quarter, compared with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The eBay Piggybackers | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

...golden egg. The Chinese year of the chicken - which dawns this week - has brought hard times for vendors of the nation's New Year toy mascots. 2004's year of the monkey saw huge demand for toy simians. But surplus plastic roosters and terry-cloth chicks are still crowding store shelves in Beijing . Some blame the problem on the inadequate cuteness of domesticated fowl; others point to the fact that the Chinese word for chicken is slang for prostitute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worldwatch | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

Green beans can be hard to find in your local grocery store but can be bought from websites devoted to java like coffeeroasting.com sweetmarias.com and coffeegeek.com These sites also offer tips and a place to share roasting recipes and trade reviews of machines and beans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home: Green Coffee Beans? | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

Mahadevan explained in an interview that when an insect lands on one of the flytrap’s hinged leaves, it stimulates small hairs on their surfaces. This stimulation moves water within the plant and causes the flytrap to store elastic energy, which is then released as the flytrap shuts. Once the plant snaps shut, it takes hours to reopen...

Author: By Megan C. Harney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Venus Fly Trap’s Mystery Revealed | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

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