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...girl I knew in high school has memorized all of Janet Jackson's dance routines. A college acquaintance is afraid of train whistles. Five separate people harbor lifelong desires to visit New Zealand. How do I know these things? Because they won't stop writing about them on Facebook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...know. We are looking to be that someone." After launching a successful texting service in the U.K., KGB decided to bring it to the U.S. The beta test launched last fall, and already the company has thousands of "agents" ready to provide you with anything from movie times and train schedules to the type of pen Bob Dole holds in his hand. (Answer: sometimes it's felt-tipped, sometimes ballpoint, and occasionally it's a pencil.) (See pictures of the cell phone's history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Answers for 50 Cents: Testing the New KGB | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...year-old high school student sporting a headband with a big ribbon and three pink roses. Her friend Miki Takahashi, 18, who takes her fashion inspiration from Cinderella, adds, "People look at me and sometimes even point a finger at me. Once a little kid on the train looked at me and exclaimed, 'Look, there is a fairy!' which was kind of embarrassing, but I didn't care because I just wear what I like." Sanae Nagamine, a 21-year-old waitress from Hitachi in northeastern Ibaraki prefecture, had to take a two-hour train ride to join her friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Princesses Preen in a Pauper Economy | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...something.” But the Crimson has many more improvements to make. The team will look for revenge as it faces its rivals once again in early March for the Ivy League championship meet in the Tigers’ home pool. “We just need to train a lot during the next few weeks and focus on becoming a better team over the next month,” Lynch said. “We lost some races in a few key spots, which is okay because we have four weeks until the conference meet...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Splits HYP Meet, Dealt First Loss by Princeton | 2/1/2009 | See Source »

...point-blank out of the barrel of an officer sworn to serve and protect. Mr. Grant died instantly, prostrate in the universal “I Surrender” position, the officer’s knee smashing his neck into cement. Police supporters claim that Grant was harassing another train passenger. Supposedly the officer who fired the shot thought he was using a taser...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo and Jarell L. Lee | Title: And Justice for All? | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

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