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...course, there will be action figures. A popular one might be Hawaiian-born Kaleo, a former champ in Japan's pro league who, at his peak, weighed 345 lbs. He came out of retirement to compete, bulking up with an old sumo trick: eat chanko nabe, a rich stew, then promptly go to sleep. But size ultimately matters less than technique--there are 70 moves a wrestler can use to get his opponent out of the ring. "I'm a pusher, a thruster," says Kaleo, who fights for Japan. "I come out like a boo rush." An all-American sumo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are You Ready For A Sumo Smackdown? | 10/24/2005 | See Source »

Seemingly mediocre math problems that somehow trick the solver into making careless errors. Compiling lists of vocabulary words for short-term mass-memorization. The pain generated by graduate school preparation stands to be lessened considerably by changes in the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) set to take effect in a year’s time. And we wholly endorse anything that minimizes a Harvard student’s stress level. The GRE, an examination required for admission to nearly every reputable graduate program, has long been little more than a rearranged SAT with more sophisticated vocabulary and reading passages. But with...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: A More Meaningful GRE | 10/24/2005 | See Source »

...what fires up Schweitzer and a growing number of industrialists is an 80 year-old chemical trick that actually allows coal to run cars. The process, in which coal is converted into synthetic gasoline or diesel, was first developed by two German scientists in 1928, allowing Nazi Germany to produce more than 124,000 barrels a day in 1944, the last full year of World War II. Sasol, a South African firm, has the only existing large-scale plants, and operates in 20 countries. In the U.S. advocates have suggested for decades that "coal-to-liquid" production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coal is Back | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

...each year with a booster vaccination. Most children, for whom the long-lasting coughing illness can be fatal, get several pertussis shots by age 6, but immunity wears off. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine says one extra shot for teens and adults would do the trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctor's Orders: Oct. 24, 2005 | 10/16/2005 | See Source »

...goal for the future of Harvard spirit is to “trick the freshmen” into considering Loker a standard social option, Haan says. “Then it sort of just sticks,” he says...

Author: By Nicole B. Urken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Harvard Pub: Say What? | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

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