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Once you have overcome being a fancy boy and you’ve decided to board the train to Blackoutville, you’re going to need alcohol. When DAPA says you can have fun without alcohol, remember these are the same idiots who bought countless cans and bottles of “pizza” last year in exchange for forged Pinocchio’s receipts. Believe us: no matter how many kids are snorkeling in Mongolia, you still are neither funny nor interesting enough to draw people to your party without the prospect of a drunken hook...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Survival Facts for Frosh: Listen Up | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...Waiting for this to happen has been like watching a slow-motion train wreck," says Ken Conboy, author of The Second Front: Inside Asia's Most Dangerous Terrorist Network. "They should have limited their exposure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia Tense After Terrorism Executions | 11/9/2008 | See Source »

...executives were bullish about the industry's chances for expansion, with 43% predicting a rise in staffing. Recruiters and analysts have been echoing this optimism as well. Notes Dan Clark, managing partner of EnergyHeadhunter, a Houston recruiter: "Most energy projects are large multi-year projects, much like a long train. The hiring you're seeing now relates to projects started a year ago, or more, before the decline in oil prices." Challenger concurs: "The energy sector remains a very strong area," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Few Bright Spots Amid Rising Unemployment | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...very important to me.” She draws her inspiration from these careful observations, especially those of women, the activities that humans use their own bodies for, and depictions of African people. “Years ago, I saw a beautiful, pregnant young girl coming out of a train station. I remember being completely overwhelmed,” Odundo said. “The body as a vessel is a very important aspect. The woman’s body tends to change. It is a carrying vessel.” Inspired by the thinness of human skin, Odundo explained...

Author: By Samantha C. Cohen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Odundo Obsessive for Clay | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery.) Gabor, however, lacked the technology to perfect holograms; double images sometimes appeared at once and were not viewable. In the 1960s, Emmett Leith added lasers to the equation and rendered the first stable holograms - which included a toy train that astounded other scientists when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holograms | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

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