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...York Times, we at The Oxford Student aspire to the editorial content of The Sun—a tabloid famous for such front-page headline genius as ‘Zip Me Up Before You Go Go’ (re: George Michael’s outing in an LA toilet...

Author: By Natalie R. Toms, | Title: Harvard Over A Pint | 1/31/2003 | See Source »

...affect behavior and mental life. Identical twins separated at birth (who share their genes but not their environment) are similar in their intellectual talents, their personality traits (such as introversion, conscientiousness and antagonism), their average level of lifelong happiness and such personal quirks as giggling incessantly or flushing the toilet both before and after using it. Identical twins (who share all their genes) are more similar than fraternal twins (who share half their genes). And biological siblings (who also share half their genes) are more similar, of course, than adopted siblings (who share none of their genes). Not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetics: Are Your Genes To Blame? | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

Sellars used a supermarket motif to stage the show, complete with an “incessant procession of slides of dog food, toilet paper, peas and Burry cookies,” according to States. The actors wore bug costumes complete with mops on their heads and pushed shopping carts...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Hilles Elevator to the ART | 1/10/2003 | See Source »

...ninth grade and farmed cotton on another man's land in return for a share of the harvest. But the land was hilly and so poor that, as locals put it, you couldn't grow anything on it but old. The Lott family didn't have an indoor toilet or bathtub until Trent was 10, but they had their priorities straight, as far as he was concerned; he had a pony and a .22 rifle, which he used mainly to shoot snakes. And he was taught to share. "People used to say that an only child would be spoiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tripped Up By History | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

...Sumedang aren't talking, at least not when Hasan is around. Most avoid eye contact with visitors and disappear around corners in the orphanage, which consists of a small chicken run, four huts fashioned out of wood and bamboo where the children and adults sleep, an open air concrete toilet and a musholla, or prayer room. A skinny 9-year-old gathers his courage to speak: "I was named Joni by my parents, but that was when I was still an infidel. I am Zulhakim now that I'm a Muslim." He looks around to make sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Timor's Lost Boys | 12/15/2002 | See Source »

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