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Don’t know where you can eat anymore? One rule of thumb is that the farther the House from the Yard, the better your odds of finding a place to eat. Dunster, Mather, and the Quad Houses will still welcome you with open arms no matter which House you call your own. For the rest of the rules, check here...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nowhere To Eat | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

...time Jeremy was 5, Gie-Ming was taking him to the local YMCA in Palo Alto, Calif., to play ball in a kids' league. For Jeremy, it wasn't exactly love at first sight. "He stood at half-court sucking his thumb for the entirety of about half his games that season," says Jeremy's older brother Josh, 24. "It came to the point where my mom stopped going to watch his games." Then Jeremy asked his mother Shirley to start coming to the Y again. Before Shirley would commit, however, she wanted to know if he'd actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harvard's Hoops Star Is Asian. Why's That a Problem? | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

...Lula da Silva, has become a hemispheric counterweight to the U.S. And it loves to play tit-for-tat with Washington. Because Washington still insists Brazilians secure a visa before entering the U.S., Brasilia makes Americans pay for a "reciprocal" permit to get into Brazil; after the U.S. started thumb-printing foreigners in immigration lines after 9/11, Brazil obliged Americans to do the same. Those are understandable counterjabs. But while no one is suggesting that the Brazilian justice system has been keeping Sean from his father as payback for Elián, Americans can't forget how loudly - and rightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Goldman Controversy: Memories of Elián González | 12/19/2009 | See Source »

Even so, apprehension about backing up files online has led many customers like Vitale to take a belt-and-suspenders approach, using the cloud as a smart way to add an extra layer of security while still relying on traditional backups like external hard drives, thumb drives and archival DVDs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Backing Up Files Online: It's Good to Mozy Along | 11/28/2009 | See Source »

Five or six years ago, I fell from the top of one of those loop ramps. I broke my pelvis, fractured my thumb and my skull and got a pretty heavy concussion. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Tony Hawk | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

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