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...hand? Impressive. Though no wonder they made the mistake—the bindery probably thought the terminal silent "e" was from an olde-tymey spelling—but it turns out that “Radcliffe” is actually  the more modern spelling of the college’s namesake, Anne Radcliffe, whose name was often spelled “Radclyffe...

Author: By Luis Urbina, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HAA Makes Typo, Amends | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

...parched terrain, the government has been rationing drinking water, digging emergency wells and shooting clouds with silver iodide in an effort to stimulate rainfall. And the drought's effects on the Mekong River - at its most depleted in 50 years - have awakened tensions with China's neighbors, who wonder if the shortage has been worsened by the country's management of its water supply and network of hydroelectric dams. (See pictures of China's drought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drought Throws Cold Water on Yunnan's Water Festival | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

...joys of jumping off the grid, I admitted to Rollman that not only had I been checking my e-mail during our talk, but I also looked at Twitter, Facebook and the New York Times. "I did too," he said. "I saw my phone beep, and I said, 'I wonder what that's all about.'" When I asked him what it was about, he said he couldn't even remember. I had been outdueled in a game of phone ADD. (See the top 10 Facebook stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Going Off the Grid | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...epilogue, you say that when you were first at home in the U.S., you found yourself looking over your shoulder. Do you still have that feeling? Like the Iranian government could come after you? Yes, sometimes I do. I wonder if they can still read my e-mails now that I'm in America. Do they follow me here? They made it seem like they have agents all over the world, and I know that they do have a lot of agents in different parts of the world. I know other former prisoners feel the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roxana Saberi: An American Journalist Imprisoned in Iran | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...applications into which I had poured several hours each, filling out endless forms, crafting cover letters, asking for recommendations, and writing essays. Time and effort that, for the all reaction I got, might have been better spent hanging with my friends or getting homework done. It almost makes you wonder if your application was even considered, even read, even opened in the first place...

Author: By Maya E. Shwayder | Title: The Silent Treatment | 4/9/2010 | See Source »

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