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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...would embarrass her. She wasn't alive anymore, but still she was there in my head. But my editor said that I had to. I thought, "Well, hey, it's a memoir. All right. I'll confess she was bipolar." I felt bad about it. But you have to tell the truth and let the chips fall where they're going or not be a writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ruth Reichl | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...given an identically labeled bleach bottle, but only half of the bottles actually contained bleach. (Although patients, or at least their parents, could easily distinguish whether they were in the bleach group or the placebo group by smelling the contents of their bottle, they were instructed not to tell the researchers which group they were in.) Those who received real bleach were instructed to draw a bath twice a week with a heavily diluted bleach solution - a half-cup of bleach per 40 gallons of water - and immerse their limbs and torsos, leaving the neck and head above water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Baths with Bleach Help Kids' Eczema | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...pyramids in just over six seconds, the 11-year-old from Longmeadow, Mass., garnered an endorsement deal from McDonald's. And when he clocked in at 5.93 sec. at a regional tournament in January, fellow stackers started sending him YouTube videos of their routines, asking for his advice. "I tell them to keep a light grip, that you need to practice like any other sport, working to get faster every single day," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stacktacular: The Speedy World of Sport Stacking | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...these prefrosh are just looking for a good time. But you just took them into uncharted territory and then spanked their already future-oriented complexes into high gear. "Have you begun to think about what you might explore as possible career paths after graduation?" You don't have to tell Harvard students to worry prematurely—they'll do it fine themselves, thank you very much...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: The Prefrosh Sabbath Day | 4/26/2009 | See Source »

...Annual Prefrosh Concert with The Holden Choruses (Paine Hall)— featuring the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, the Harvard Glee Club, and the Radcliffe Choral Society; choral repertoire will range from "Renaissance polyphony to folk songs to modern commissions." Please go to the concert and come back to tell us what that means...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: The Prefrosh Sabbath Day | 4/26/2009 | See Source »

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