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Tamberino’s mother struggles to send her and her brother to private schools because no scholarships are available. Tamberino didn’t want to strain her family’s finances any further, and she said that she was “blown away” when she heard about Harvard’s financial aid program during her junior year, naming it as a key reason she applied...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Aid Office Continues Efforts To Recruit Lower-Income Students | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...name of this creed is evangelical atheism. Now, atheism is certainly not a religion, and the phrase “evangelical atheism” certainly appears oxymoronic. But we have witnessed in our time the rise of a virulent strain of atheism championed by Bill Maher, the comedian and star of Religulous, the secularist philosopher Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, and their often indignant ilk. For all its schooling and pretense of intellectualism, this godless vanguard unknowingly adopts the very aspects of religion its leaders passionately lambaste and turns atheism into the kind of evangelical ideology it opposes...

Author: By Dhruv K. Singhal | Title: The Church of Atheism | 12/14/2008 | See Source »

...Strain pasta and add to marinara and serve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheap Eats: Star Chefs' Spam Recipes | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...below 2% in 2009, according to economists - and it's taking the rich down with it. Not that long ago, Russia was the poster child for unfettered wealth and freewheeling consumption. Now, with the stock market down more than 70% in the past year and the ruble feeling the strain, the nation's high earners are a little less quick to put their hands in their pockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gloom Time for Moscow's Millionaires | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...according to the government. Lo Wing-lok, president of the Hong Kong Medical Association and an expert on infectious disease, says that Hong Kong uses an older version of the H5 vaccine than mainland China, where there are more frequent outbreaks and farmers vaccinate poultry specifically against the H5N1 strain of the virus. (See pictures of Hong Kong from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Hong Kong's Bird Flu Vaccine Failing? | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

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