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...three of his own. Both junior guard Jeremy Lin and junior forward Doug Miller contributed two rejections to the total. Freshman center Peter Swiatek had a key block of his own after coming off the bench in the last seconds of the game, leaping through the air to stuff Jeremy Hence’s layup to seal the game for Harvard...

Author: By Ricky Liu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Blocked Shots, Return of Seniors Overwhelm Black Knights | 11/30/2008 | See Source »

...slower. They're not buying the big stuff," said a sales person at Macys flagship store in Herald Square, who asked not to be named. A $400 diamond bracelet had been marked down to $99, but there were more sales people standing near it than customers. Instead, shortly after 7 a.m., a crowd was hovering around a display of costume jewelry priced at $9.99 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Friday Turnout: No Miracle on 34th Street | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...treadmill desk could be the most useful juxtaposition since PEOPLE magazine put a scratch-and-sniff patch on its Sexiest Men Alive pictures. Like the holy grail of time savers, the walking desk doubles down on the stuff you have to do, freeing you up for the things you want to do--specifically, not work and not exercise. But can it be so simple? Could office work be, as the brochure puts it, "a moving experience"? I spent a few days on a Steelcase Walkstation, one of several desk-treadmill combos available, to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danger: Walking While Working. | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

Then there's the stuff that artificial trees are made of. One ingredient in most fake firs is polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a plastic that is difficult to recycle. And while new artificial trees pose little threat to children's health, Mike Schade, the PVC-campaign coordinator for the activist group Center for Health, Environment and Justice, notes that older plastic trees tend to have higher levels of lead, a potent neurotoxin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O Christmas Tree | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

They're simple, they're American and come Thanksgiving, everybody saves room for them. But the pies we know today are a fairly recent addition to a history that goes back as long as mankind has had dough to bake into a crust and stuff to put inside it. In medieval England, they were called pyes, and instead of being predominantly sweet, they were most often filled with meat - beef, lamb, wild duck, magpie pigeon - spiced with pepper, currants or dates. Historians trace pie's initial origins to the Greeks, who are thought to be the originators of the pastry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pie | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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