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...EXACTLY what college cheerleading looks like. Tumbling, flipping, and stacking human bodies into giant pyramids are all routine for these peppy athletes and Harvard proved itself worthy of a national stage. But, the team also had to face harsh reality: the best trip of their cheering lives would cost a whopping $20,000, sparking a fundraising marathon...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield | Title: Cheerleaders Compete at Nationals for the First Time | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...beginning of each semester due to student preferences. Selsby indicated that FAS IT will prioritize its infrastructure and provided services in responding to the economic crunch, though he emphasized that the UA program also remains high amongst those priorities, since the department already considers the program a cost-saving measure in itself. Selsby mentioned, however, that FAS IT might actually see a trend of increased student employment as economic realities reverberate, especially for undergraduates with webmaster experience. “I deal a lot with departmental Web sites that want small design projects done by students, because the students...

Author: By Edward-michael Dussom, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FAS IT Cuts Hours, But Not For Budgets | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...third). He's manfully filled the B-movie action slots once occupied by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal. His movies generally pull first-weekend numbers in the teen-millions and end up in the $25-40 million domestic range - not bad for productions that don't cost much. And they often double their North American gross in foreign markets: Transporter 3 made $32 million here, nearly $70 million abroad. So the low number for Crank: High Voltage will slow Statham's momentum, but it won't kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Report: Zac to the Future! | 4/19/2009 | See Source »

...Still, saving is the real key. Zimmerman has seven children, between the ages of 2 and 19. At a grocery auction in early April, she bought hot dogs, frozen pizzas and an Easter ham, among other items. Zimmerman figures all the stuff she bought would have cost $300 in the grocery store. She paid $100. "The more we save on food, the more we have for all the other bills each month," Zimmerman says. "Our cash flow can stretch out further. These auctions have just been a blessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canned Ham, Going Once, Twice: A Rise in Grocery Auctions | 4/19/2009 | See Source »

...experiment was surprisingly inexpensive: The whole set-up only cost about $15,000 - next to nothing for a piece of groundbreaking astronomical research. "Earthshine is such a simple idea that we have known about for such a long time," says Langford, "but it makes looking at Earth as a 'prototype' Earth-like planet so easy! An amateur astronomer could definitely take this data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotting Distant Worlds from the Backyard | 4/19/2009 | See Source »

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