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...Kolkata derby, which most recently took place during this mid-August deluge, is an epic contest older than the Spanish civil war waged between Real Madrid and Barcelona and deeper than the glossy rivalries of the money-spinning English Premier League. India, of course, is not a football power - at home, the sport is dwarfed by cricket, which has captured the country's popular imagination and advertising revenue. Despite a few recent successes, the Indian national side is still a minnow in the pool of world football. It's ranked a woeful 145th overall by FIFA, football's global governing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash of the Titans | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

Number of U.S. children older than 6 who are obese, a measure that has tripled among 6-to-11-year-olds over the past 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Oct. 15, 2007 | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...There are meta-search properties that combine the search results from other engines - sites like Dogpile.com, MyWebSearch.com and Mamma.com. While the users of these kinds of sites skew female, the typical profile for meta-search engines is a less technically sophisticated user who tends to be 55 or older. Initially meta-search was a favorite of the tech-savvy user - in the early years of search, it wasn't uncommon to find drastically different results on the major sites, and meta-search engines served a very useful purpose of providing a comprehensive set of results. But in today's world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching Beyond Google | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...undergraduates. Thanks to UC funding, a nervous freshman could show up to a sweatbox in Mather, guzzle a Coke and vodka cocktail, and grind their frustrations away on the sweet shanks of an upperclass flooze. Fun for Harvard upperclassmen—fun for Harvard underclassmen’s older brother—appears infirm but reasonably healthy, but sources within University Hall say it’s just a matter of time before he gets offed. “The people who own the bars in the Square, they’ve got families, don’t they...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: OBITUARY: Fun at Harvard, 1720-2007. | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...tutorial in everything, name included. Even though Social Studies 10a is no longer officially a tutorial since students cannot formally declare their concentration choice until December 3, it is still a requirement for any student intending to apply to Social Studies, and remains virtually identical in structure to the older model. All other choices for prospective concentrators involve taking two or more social studies tutorials simultaneously in their junior years. Much like FAS’ renaming of the Core, the more things change, the more they stay the same...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri and Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: Nasty, Brutish, And Obstinate | 9/28/2007 | See Source »

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