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...other poison would pop up - it seemed like a never-ending battle. You keep pushing the rock up the hill, right? They were pretty meticulous at hunting down new poisons. And is it a never-ending game? Absolutely. We're always inventing new, creative industrial chemicals. You see the thing same today that you saw then, which is when we get 'gee whizzy' about things and put them out there in our every day lives without having enough proper respect or understanding of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CSI: Jazz Age New York | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

...thing I really admire about Conor is that he’s got a tremendous amount of focus,” his father says. “He’s very dedicated to being the best he can be...He’s never satisfied...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Frosh Follows Family Trade | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

...We’re still working on [gender-neutral housing], and fairness throughout the process is the most important thing,” said Daniel V. Kroop ’10, a former Undergraduate Council member who has been involved with lobbying for gender-neutral housing privileges...

Author: By Alice E. M. Underwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yale Approves Gender-Neutral Housing | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

...commit murder, you want to be white, and you want to be wealthy - so that you can hire a first-class lawyer - and you want to kill a black person. And if [you are], the odds of your being sentenced to death are basically zero. It's one thing to say that rich people should be able to drive Ferraris and poor people should have to take the bus. It's very different to say that rich people should get treated one way by the state's criminal-justice system and poor people should get treated another way. But that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death Penalty: Racist, Classist and Unfair | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...tell his teammates where to throw their stones to the house, that dartboard-looking scoring area on the ice (an explanation of how curling works requires a textbook - just know that in the end, if your stone is closest to the bull's-eye, that's a good thing). And of course, he also badgers the sweepers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curling: Vancouver's Oddest Obsession | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

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