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...first, I felt betrayed: This high-quality bounty had been close at hand all along. Instead, I’d been stuck where they served turkey cold cuts—straight from the sandwich bar, but topped with a little garnish—as an entr?...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss | Title: SurPRISE | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...this past year of living with another transfer who had spent the first two years of college enrolled in the United States Military Academy at West Point. He left to become an academic, but never lost the values of duty, honor, and leadership that are instilled there. We left straight from our last final to dash to South Station, took the Fung Wah bus to New York City, and then boarded a night train headed north towards West Point. We camped clandestinely in the woods, dodging the military police, and rose with reveille in the morning to see the young...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Phaneuf | Title: We Who Never Set a Squadron in the Field | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...there are many ways of being modern, and that Western liberal democracy is but one of them. But that little collection of essays on the great equations reminds us that a society's characteristics today will not necessarily shape what it will look like tomorrow. History rarely runs in straight and predictable lines. At the end of the 19th century, Germany - or perhaps more accurately, Germanic central Europe - was a technological and scientific powerhouse, its universities nurturing geniuses like Einstein, Heisenberg and Schrödinger, whose discoveries changed the way we thought of, well, everything. Then came the carnage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into the Unknown | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...action figures, too.) G.I. Joe was also made into video games for early Atari and Commodore game platforms and as a comic-book series published by Marvel from 1982 to 1994. This won't even be G.I. Joe's first film - the animated flick G.I. Joe: The Movie went straight to video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: G.I. Joe | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

American Psychological Association • conclusion of that therapeutic efforts - or even extreme measures like exorcisms - to change people's sexual orientation from gay to straight (the only kind of change there seems to be much demand for) don't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

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