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...rooms without spending a penny. He's also purchased jewelry through barter and then resold it to hotel guests for a profit. The system works for personal use, too. Hill's wife has spent the hotel's barter credits on cosmetic dental work and perms, and the family recently went on a ski holiday in France on barter pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bartering: Have Hotel, Need Haircut | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...forging much closer military ties to India. Thanks to a monitoring agreement reached this year, U.S. defense contractors can sell technology freely to India. "India is probably the most important country internationally for us," says Garrett Mikita, president of defense and space at Honeywell Aerospace, who went to New Delhi recently to court Indian officials. The company is one of two firms bidding to replace the engines in India's 300 Jaguar fighter jets, a contract worth as much as $5 billion. The engines are aging and would need to be replaced anyway, but Mikita says the recent tension with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Vs. India: Will Rivalry Lead to War? | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

Find out how the night went, after the jump.Upon entering Leverett Old Library, FlyBy was impressed by the white tablecloths scattered with rose petals, dim lighting, and mellow jazz. Very classy, CSA!  After picking up a nametag, we made an immediate beeline for the platters of chocolate, nuts and strawberries. (“We were going for aphrodisiacs,” Michael Zhang ’12, who organized the event, told...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Asians, Aphrodisiacs, and Speed Dating | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who was arrested by Cambridge police for breaking into his own house in July, went pubbing with Sgt. James Crowley at River Gods Bar & Restaurant last night. The two seem to have become way more chummy since the summer, when Gates virulently alleged that he had been racial profiled by police and called on Crowley to "beg my forgiveness...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu | Title: The story that doesn't go away | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...registered for the race as "K.V. Switzer," and Boston officials, unaware of her sex, allowed her to compete. Upon noticing K.V. was no man, a race official tried to physically remove her from the course; her boyfriend, running nearby, gave him a shove and she finished the race. (Switzer went on to win the New York City Marathon in 1974.) In 1980, women comprised 10.5% of marathon runners; today the figure is 41%. (Read "When a Marathon Goes Wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marathon | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

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