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...Heathrow's homeless to avoid detection by police. "I thought about disguising myself as a passenger, but I have a bit of what you might call 'a luggage issue,' 65-year-old Joseph explains from a bench in the airport's remote bus terminal, pointing at a shopping trolley of bulging plastic bags. "They are hardly Louis Vuitton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heathrow's Down-and-Out Jet Set | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...tubes each vacation must consider the Analog Darkness whenever we choose Core classes. What kind of post-television exchanges will “Dinosaurs and their Relatives” lead to? How about “Justice”? Will our television-bereft parents enjoy whimsical hypotheticals about trolley cars and the morbidly obese? Will our liberal education prepare us adequately for the static ahead?Former Yale president Kingman Brewster, Jr., said that a liberal education “makes it less likely that you will be bored with life ... and less likely that you will be a bore...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Don’t Block the Box | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...Greetings from Bury Park lies in the everyday details of Manzoor's coming of age in a home that will never be home for his mum and dad. His mother, when he was young, cut the grass with a pair of scissors, while his brother slept on a hospital trolley bed, and the others all slept on the floor. His father got up at 7 a.m. and dressed for work even after he had been laid off by the local Vauxhall car plant. As for Saf, we meet him wearing pajamas under his trousers so he doesn't look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Born to Run Away | 6/13/2007 | See Source »

...suppose the only way to save the five people is to push someone else onto the track--a bystander whose body will bring the trolley to a halt before it hits the others. It's still a one-for-five swap, and you still initiate the action that dooms the one--but now you are more directly implicated; most people say it would be wrong to do this deal. Why? According to Greene's brain scans, the second scenario--the "up close and personal" intervention, he calls it--more thoroughly excites parts of the brain linked to emotion than does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Brain: How We Make Life-and-Death Decisions | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...better than Jim Breuer. Friday, Jan. 19 8 p.m. and 10:15 p.m, ($27), Saturday Jan. 20 10:45 p.m. ($32), Sunday Jan. 21 7 p.m. ($25) Faneuil Hall, 245 Quincy Market Building, Boston 4)Chocolate Train Splurge on a sweet historical tour of Boston on the Boston Chocolate Trolley Tour that kicks off its season this weekend. This tasty trip travels throughout the city, pausing so that passengers can enjoy chocolate treats from The Omni Parker House, Top of the Hub and the Langham Hotel’s chocolate buffet. Saturday...

Author: By Crimson staff | Title: Get Out! | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

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