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And there is something troubling about the willful distortion of a hallmark of American childhood just to get a message across. Cookie Monster may not have been as dynamic as Big Bird or Snuffleupagus, but his calling card’s—these cookies, of course—comic...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: A (Cookie) Monstrosity | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

In a recent issue of Observer, the magazine of the Association for Psychological Science, Ian Herbert, a journalist and triathlete, reported on numerous other studies that explain why we fall off the exercise wagon. Research by psychologist Roy Baumeister at Florida State University, for example, suggests that self-control is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stuck on the Couch | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

Today, droves of urbane politicos and journalists will check out of the Des Moines Ramada with their business settled, and stage their escape from flyover country (at least until 2011). Many will kiss the grimy concrete at LaGuardia, glad to be back in the impersonal murk of a â?...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: In Defense of Pig Farmers | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

This morning’s decision, said Anderson, came after members of the commission ruled that the Willey-Snow campaign’s email violation had not been as willful or widespread as previously thought.

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Elections May See Lowest Turnout | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

The word evacuation doesn't do justice to the poignancy of the act. An evacuation is--potentially--the willful and reasonable abandonment of a life. Not just the photographs but also your grandfather's ashes and your baby's receiving blanket from the hospital. Until they're gone, it's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What to Save From a Fire | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

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