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...clinic was my family doctor, you might say. And one year when I was a young teenager the NASA eye doctor came to me, and as my eyesight was becoming fairly bad, he said, "Hey richard, you've got bad eyesight; I'm sorry to be the one to tell you, but that's going to prevent you from ever being selected as a NASA astronaut." I hadn't really thought to myself before then that I was going to be an astronaut; I grew up in a neighborhood where everybody was an astronaut. So it was like being told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Tourist Richard Garriott | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...Possibly the most important piece of advice is to be respectful of your roommates. Just because your half of the bunkbed might feel like a cozy sanctuary does not mean it actually is. Your roommate might wait until graduation to tell you this, but they can always hear you. ALWAYS. And don’t think you’re being respectful by moving things into the common room. Your roommates will eventually realize that the mysterious stains on the futon are not from Chinese takeout...

Author: By Julia M. Spiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How to Keep Cool as Things Get Hot | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...Carlos Diaz spent nine years as the head teaching fellow for ‘The American Presidency,’ watching Porter tell story after story from his experiences working alongside presidents...

Author: By Abby D. Phillip and Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The Executive Professor | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...concerning the SAT and the ACT, “We’re all just making assumptions about these tests. We’ve all grown up with it. It’s embedded in the culture. If you really ask around the country, how many admissions officers can tell you at their institution what the predictive validity of the test is? What does it add to our understanding? What do tests help you predict? You’d find a lot of them equate these tests with intelligence. It’s not an intelligence test...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: UnSAT | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...severed its unnatural bonds with then West Pakistan, a thousand miles away on the other side of India. At the close of the Liberation War, as it's called by Bangladeshis, TIME reporters suggested the death toll was above a million. Ask people in Dhaka today and they'll tell you the true figure of Bengali civilians murdered by West Pakistani troops and death squads guided by collaborators was three times that. Bangladesh sits atop an alluvial plain, so those bent on genocide needed only to dump bodies in rivers or, as at the Jalladkhana, down the wells and conduits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Dhaka's Ghosts Alive | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

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