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Using data from his research, Kruse plans to conduct a second study that focuses on the magnetic properties of a smaller subset of five to ten thousand stars...

Author: By Brandon M. Law, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ethan A. Kruse: Turning His Eyes to the Sky | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

...Emmy Awards, and in the decades since it went off the air, has been homaged on everything from “The Simpsons” to “Sesame Street” (and twice in this season of “Community” alone). A few hundred thousand Super Bowl viewers shouldn’t let us devalue the importance of “M*A*S*H” to television history...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Remembering Radar O’Reilly: The Ratings Legacy of ‘M*A*S*H’ | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...iconic photo has Ko sandwiched between Kim Jong Il and South Korea's late President Kim Dae Jung, the friend and former jail mate for whom Ko penned an encomium included in Maninbo (Ten Thousand Lives), his 30-volume magnum opus profiling everyone he's ever met, as well as figures from Korean folklore and history. The three are toasting each other at a state banquet during the first Reunification Summit in Pyongyang in June 2000, during which Ko recited "At the Taedong River," an occasional poem that reportedly much moved the fearless Dear Leader. An earlier piece, written after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sense of Place: The Korean Peninsula | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...heart raced. Each plastic- wrapped packet contained a thousand banknotes, or 20 million Colombian pesos - the equivalent of nearly $7,000. His wallet had never held more than petty cash, but now he was stuffing his uniform pockets with thick wads of currency. It wasn't easy because his whole body quaked with the snap realization that he, Walter Suárez, a $44-a-week anonymous soldier condemned to a mission impossible, had just won a kind of ad hoc lottery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Colombia, A Bungled First Rescue Attempt | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...lining the stands of the Richmond Olympic Oval south of Vancouver on Saturday were more than a thousand people dressed in orange (the color of the Dutch royal family), singing, ringing cowbells, waving noisemakers, treating this somniferous sport as it were a championship title bout. When Dutchman Sven Kramer, 24, won the gold and set an Olympic 5,000-meter record, they roared. But, then again, they cheered boisterously for every skater that passed by them. As sports fans go, no group is more bewildering than the speed-skating nuts from Holland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explaining the Crazy Dutch Love of Speed Skating | 2/14/2010 | See Source »

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