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CHICAGO—By the time I finish working this summer, I will have spent almost 12,000 minutes traveling to and from my job. When I tell people that I commute an hour and a half each way, every day, I get a variety of responses. The most common is outright horror. “Oh my God,” they say, “Why would you do that to yourself?” which is a bit disconcerting, since it would seem more appropriate if I had just declared that I was going to spend...

Author: By Emma M. Lind, | Title: To and From Home | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

...from a sinking ship—who wouldn’t want to pay less to live a life of cultured luxury?I’m in Buenos Aires to study literature and history for six months, but folks, even just two weeks into my voluntary expatriation, I can tell you that the PR is nothing more than a show, replete with all the authenticity of a cheesy tourist trap; this picture of Buenos Aires is like laying down $60 for a greasy dinner and an overwrought tango performance—it’s simply not the real thing...

Author: By Grace Tiao, | Title: Come to Buenos Aires | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

...extremist reporter from the Basque Country, which he declared to be its own country, though Madrid would say otherwise. I sighed. I might have been able to escape Catalán, but Spain was a step ahead of me with its four distinct languages. It is simply impossible to tell who is a “Spaniard” and who is not, revealing their whole modus operandi for integration was wrong from the outset. Steven A. McDonald ’07, a Crimson magazine editor, is a biology concentrator in Currier House. In Spain, he learned that both Catal?...

Author: By Steven A. Mcdonald, | Title: Catalán, Anyone? | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

...says, is a type of hypothesis-driven research; the subjects may tell experimenters about a tendency towards motion sickness, for example, and scientists can then look at a possible correlation in that individual’s genome...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Church Hopes to Make DNA Decoding Accessible | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

...They separate for ten months at a time and then meet again and so they have stories to tell; they become natural narrators, sitting together under a tree, smelling of dirt and sunscreen, comparing what being 8 or 12 or 16 means in Canton, or Fox Chapel, or Bronxville. But then in another violation of the school-year space-time continuum, my rising sixth grader can have as her best summer friend the neighbor across the street, who hikes and kayaks and became a grandmother this year. The sixth graders don't play with the seventh graders at school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sweet Surprise of Summer Freedom | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

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