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...years. He spoke with clarion clarity, his voice an elocution teacher's pride, easily parodied but intimate, powerful and oh-so-precise. It was "nee-ews," never the lazy "nooze," and "reck-ord," not "reckerd." For emphasis, he'd add a vowel to a word with abutting consonants ("web-a-site"). Many of his fans were of his generation, but a few young'uns had to be tuning in: his broadcasts reached some 12 million weekly listeners on 1,200 radio stations and 400 Armed Forces Network affiliates. Nor did you have to agree with Harvey to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Harvey: The End of the Story | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

Apparently "expos" is taking on new meaning for the class of 2012 : Fly By has discovered an eager group of first-year men "expos"ing themselves on the web. Video after the jump. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9H1bQdT8Pw]A video posted on YouTube features six young men, presumably first-year residents of Canaday Hall, getting down and dirty in the basement of the newest -- but perhaps not cleanest -- freshman dorm. Although there are no women to speak of in the video, it is set to the Britney Spears song "Womanizer". And though the video is sans nudity, here are some highlights...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir | Title: Canaday, cabaret | 2/28/2009 | See Source »

...Quittner bod back into its more kittenish shape. One, the cigarette-lighter-size (and awkwardly named) Smheart Link, works with an iPhone to monitor my heartbeat during customized daily workouts. The other, the Bodybugg, measures my caloric expenditure. I recommend each. (Watch Josh Quittner get fit with his web and tech gadgets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pocket-Size Personal Trainers | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...your strength, you’re shooting yourself in the foot,” MacDonald says. “The service has to be the difference-maker. When it becomes your liability rather than your asset, then you’re giving your business to a Web site...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: 126 Years and Still Smoking | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...complex web of alliances is also illustrated by the U.S.'s use of drones to target two groups of militants, led by Maulvi Nazir and Hafiz Gul Bahadar, based in Waziristan. These men, from the Ahmedzai Wazir tribe, which straddles the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, had formed an alliance with the Pakistani army against Mehsud and other militants. In fact, backed by the army, Nazir and his men had routed some 250 al-Qaeda-aligned Uzbek militants from Wana, in South Waziristan, in 2004. But despite their nonaggression pact with the Pakistani military, both men continued to mount cross-border attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shifting Alliances Complicate U.S.-Pakistan War Against Militants | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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