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...catch on with subsistence farmers, Osborn had to find a cheaper solution. Hence his invention of the chili fence - a rope hung with rags smeared in engine grease mixed with crushed chilies. And chili smoke, generated by burning animal dung mixed with chilies. Elephants would get a whiff of that and, to the delight of nearby farmers, trot off trumpeting into the distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Chilies Keep Elephants At Bay | 11/28/2007 | See Source »

...That whiff of a challenge was reinforced by the stories Romney heard as he traveled the state. After talking to a jeweler in North Andover, a man about his age, Romney remembers thinking, "Gosh, he's 55. He could have a heart attack. He could get cancer. He's got his own business, but he doesn't have health insurance? How can this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mitt Romney's Defining Moment | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...good books. We are, after all, the 6,500 smartest citizen-scholars on earth.In the event that Faust does not bow out gracefully this afternoon, she would do well to heed our stern command, articulated best in Ragalie’s Monday missive: “The slightest whiff of incompetence, the first blossom of injustice drives us back to the barricades.” This, President Faust, is the music of a people who will not be slaves again.Adam Goldenberg ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Do You Hear The People Sing? | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...thought a walk down Holyoke Street without a whiff of decomposing food was pure fantasy, think again...

Author: By Anna Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Square Turns Digital | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...both obvious and rather subtle. It's a website, but in a sense, it's another version of the Internet itself: a Net within the Net, one that's everything the larger Net is not. Facebook is cleanly designed and has a classy, upmarket feel to it--a whiff of the Ivy League still clings. People tend to use their real names on Facebook. They also declare their sex, age, whereabouts, romantic status and institutional affiliations. Identity is not a performance or a toy on Facebook; it is a fixed and orderly fact. Nobody does anything secretly: a news feed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nerd World: Why Facebook Is the Future | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

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