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Basically no one has a problem with a Southern accent around Harvard. Many people even fake it just to be sexier. Furthermore, there are a ton of Texans at Harvard; they fill up the Southern demographic. I just don’t see how Texans are discriminated against as dumber, or what Texas has to do with making Harvard students more cosmopolitan...

Author: By Jack Gage and Ken W. Mckinley | Title: Coggins Should Have Focused on Alaska | 11/26/2007 | See Source »

...utilized a majority-run offense for nine weeks, and then in the 10th finally turned quarterback Chris Pizzotti loose, throwing the ball on first down, taking chances down the field, and spreading the defense by mixing in a healthy dose of screens and draws. On defense, Murphy called a ton of blitzes—harnessing the speed of his front four and the aggressiveness of his linebackers while trusting his veteran secondary—to get into the backfield and boggle the Bulldogs’ attack. In the end, the most plausible rationale is a clich?...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IN LEHMAN'S TERMS: Bulldog Flaws Brought To Light | 11/26/2007 | See Source »

...simple piece of rope hangs between some environmentally friendly Americans and their neighbors. On one side stand those who have begun to see clothes dryers as wasteful consumers of energy (up to 6% of total electricity) and powerful emitters of carbon dioxide (up to a ton of CO2 per household every year). As an alternative, they are turning to clotheslines as part of what Alexander Lee, founder of the advocacy group Project Laundry List, calls "what-I-can-do environmentalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting for the Right to Dry | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...international map. Chris Burden is readying more than 200 historic lampposts, and Robert Irwin is curating a garden of palm trees. If all goes according to plan, expect a 161-ft. (49 m) crane dangling a 70-ft. (21.3 m) train replica courtesy of Jeff Koons, plus a 400-ton Michael Heizer rock, which Govan boasts will be "one of the largest monolithic objects moved since ancient times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking Out Of the Box | 11/19/2007 | See Source »

...pigs--tiny changes but ones that add up and are far cheaper than a new robot. "We are obsessed with getting costs down," says Jobson. Back in his office, he pulls up a graph showing York's productivity. In 1998 it took 38 man-hours to produce a ton of chocolate. This year's time is forecast to drop to 23 hours--a 40% improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nestle's Quick | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

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