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...Nobels, honors bestowed on "achievements that first make people LAUGH, and then make them THINK [sic]." While Thursday's ceremony was indeed goofy and thought-provoking, the traditional 60-second acceptance speeches left little room for explanations. If you were left wondering why anyone would invent a brassiere/gas mask or experiment with panda feces, then you were in luck. The (free!) The Ig Informal Lectures were Saturday at 1:00 PM in MIT Building 10, Room 250, 77 Mass. Ave. Winners and "several" laureates explained their award-winning research and took questions...
...hear what everyone is sayin. specially bout my sho, lol. i wish i had time to respond to more people on twitter. some days i just listen n dont tweet. people think im not there, but im always listenin. im about entertainment and makin people laugh. i like to invent games like twitter tag n meet people in person. sometimes lots of people sho up like in portland. i sat on a corner in phx one time n told fans where i was. i gave em tix and they came to a game. in the beginning i would tell people...
...Pope (as one Vogue staffer calls the boss), Coddington is Michelangelo, trying to paint a fresh version of the Sistine Chapel 12 times a year amid hurdles that include budgets (admittedly not much of a restraint, at least when this film was shot), the need to forecast and invent multiple trends (which here go by the name "stories") and the arrival of celebrities with impossible hair. (See the top 10 magazine covers...
...further their cause, gay activists in Asia have had to adapt, as Cui did. They can't just borrow strategies honed during the U.S. civil rights movement as others have done - in countries where democracy is still a work in progress, they have to invent new ones. Instead of confrontational tactics, they work hand in hand with other activists. Pradeep Khadka, human-rights coordinator for the Blue Diamond Society, says that rather than challenging Nepalese society, his group has built alliances within the democracy movement and tried to change attitudes and policies through political persuasion. Even the language...
...while Rubio is clearly a fresh face, he's not really pushing fresh ideas. He constantly invokes Ronald Reagan and traditional values but seems uncomfortable with modern problems. His solution for the energy crisis is for government to butt out so that someone can invent a tiny battery that will power a whole city. The only specific critique he made of U.S. health care was that hospitals don't say how much their appendectomies cost, as if patients in acute abdominal pain are looking to comparison-shop. He tweeted that the situation in Iran would be different "if they...