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...Zulus thought bullets flew like spears and so aimed their rifles too high, why creeping artillery barrages didn't work in the First World War, whether it was Kokoda or the Battle of the Coral Sea that saved Australia from the Japanese. Not all the members think about this stuff. But it's hard to shoot, even at a cartoon, and not be reminded of what you owe all the people who've served as targets on your behalf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trigger Happiness | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

...just trying to do a coming-of-age novel similar to the ones I read when I was growing up. You know, S.E. Hinton books like Rumble Fish and The Outsiders." Malkani is in search of a topic for his second novel. "I want to focus on stuff I'm currently obsessed with. It won't necessarily be race or gender. One thing that bothers me now is that kids don't read anymore, they don't follow the news, they don't read books." Even if that concern doesn't end up as the subject of Malkani's next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pump Up The Street Cred | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...architects of the ill-fated 1994 health-care-reform plan--began approaching food and beverage companies about voluntarily controlling what they sell to kids. Of all the unhealthy foods students consume, sugary beverages were the obvious place to start. First of all, kids drink tons of the stuff. The average 11-to-14-year-old consumes almost twice as much soda as water; 15-to-19-year-olds pour down an average of two 12-oz. servings of soda every day--in the process consuming 1.5 lbs. of sugar each week. The benefits of dialing back the sugary drinks would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bill Put the Fizz in the Fight Against Fat | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...Mary Jordan?s irresistible doc Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, the artist?s reedy voice is heard intoning, "Doctor, doctor, tell me, please, / Is my brain a germ or a disease?" Late in life, he says of his work: "I was knocking myself out to make this stuff. And I always assumed that people would see this and have pity and give me a little support. [Now he shouts:] They didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Feast of Documentaries | 5/5/2006 | See Source »

...waste generation and per capita recycling standings, to 20th. Harvard residents recycled 26.72 percent of their waste, in comparison to the 50.9 percent by the first-place-holder, Cal State San Marcos. “Harvard’s a very wealthy school and we buy a lot of stuff. Fortunately we did recover a lot of it to be recycled, which shows we have a good infrastructure,” Gogan said. “But the thing we have to work more on is buying more efficiently, buying the things we want, wasting less, using more...

Author: By Alexandra C. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yale Is ‘Trashier’ Than Harvard | 5/5/2006 | See Source »

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