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Danz: I have one personal anecdote... [He proceeds to tell us about one girl he got matched with, and how awkward that was.] It at least has been used to generate real life hilarious awkwardness, but I don't know about real love...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seven Questions About Datamatch | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

...around rooting for product recalls. That's because those people don't exist. But I got excited when Toyota recalled the 2010 Prius. It's not that I dislike the Prius. My lovely wife Cassandra has one, and it is an excellent vehicle. Except for its need to constantly tell you how excellent it is. There's a screen in the center of the dashboard with an animation that shows how much energy the car is recycling as you drive it. If one of your employees were really efficient but throughout the day kept standing up in his cubicle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: My Prius Problem | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...natural order of status competition. If you want your friends and associates to think you're more successful than you are, you should have to waste $130,000 on a Maserati. These days, no one owns any other kind of hybrid, because you can't tell from a distance that they're hybrids. If GM made a car shaped like a crying planet, it could give our government all its money back. (See the history of the electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: My Prius Problem | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...Roland and the rest of the Pensioner Gang tell a slightly different story. In court on Feb. 8, Roland said he simply wanted to "invite" the financial adviser for "a few days' holiday in Upper Bavaria." He said he told his wife Sieglinde that "we're going to invite him round for several days - he's our guest." He added that James went into the house of his own accord and stayed in an "emergency guest room" (which presumably means it was hastily made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Kidnapping Trial: Revenge of the Pensioners | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...there are tents. These tents belong to women like 56-year-old Marie-Claude Jean, who lives on the cement driveway of the courthouse in hopes of getting some aid. She has observed the grandiose statements of lawyers and judges every day and says that, from what she can tell, the Americans should be freed based on good intentions. "When you take a child out of Haiti, they have more opportunities," says Jean. "It's not bad that they didn't have papers. It was a catastrophe, and we were dealing with difficult circumstances." (See a story about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Missionary Baby-Lift Case: The View from Haiti's Streets | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

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