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...Europe - British furniture stores and websites are legitimately selling copies of the Egg chair, for example, for a fraction of the original's $5,000 price tag. "A commercial decision was taken to use some reproduction similar chairs," Lorraine Homer, spokeswoman for McDonald's in the U.K., tells TIME via e-mail. "Whilst we wish to continue placing Fritz Hansen chairs at some restaurants, using an off-the-peg alternative allows us to re-image a greater number of restaurants...
...guess my ability to connect to dragons via meditation surprised even myself. Because when I opened my eyes, there he was. Dragon, my best dragon friend. Yeh, he was called Dragon. That’s his name. Dragon. Dragon the dragon...
Even random research projects deserve recognition. Last week’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony in Sanders Theatre did just that, celebrating the most improbable research done this past year. This class of winners canvassed everything from vanilla fragrance via cow poop to a “gay bomb” that made enemy soldiers mind-numbingly sexy to each other. (Sounds dangerous—and fabulous!) War-time orgies aside, the awards also mentioned a study on the effects of Viagra on jet-lagged hamsters. Diego A. Golombek, who conducted the study, flew in from Argentina to accept...
...According to ANC custom, the leadership contest would occur behind closed doors, with the leadership maintaining a united front in public. This time, it's anything but. The two rivals and their supporters have been tearing into each other via the newspapers - albeit via anonymous leaks - for years. And then there were the two 2005 court cases that gave Mbeki cause to fire a man who had become increasingly vocal in his criticism, from the left, of the direction of the ANC government. The corruption charges relating to an arms contract were later withdrawn, and he was cleared...
When several Harvard women were disturbed by strange phone calls last week, news of a mysterious man called “The Whisperer” (a.k.a, “The Prowler”) quickly traveled over e-mail lists. This unsavory character, we learned, has harassed Harvard women via their red phones before, and, despite a police order to stop in 2001, has done it again every two years of the last six. Sometimes he just asks for someone to hold; sometimes his language is more vulgar...