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...changing in Murakami's heart. His status as a truly global writer is assured - over 100,000 copies of the English version of his most recent novel, After Dark, have been printed since its release in May - but with the world conquered, and precocious undergraduates from Sydney to San Francisco at his feet, the postmodernist master dismisses the foreign adulation with a tired hand, and finds himself returning to the world of his parents and his birth. Despite the title - and a cameo appearance by Colonel Sanders of KFC fame - 2002's Kafka on the Shore was Murakami's most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haruki Murakami Returns | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...team at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is working with the University of California at San Diego to design and power small sensors to place on bridges - or on any piece of infrastructure for that matter - that would measure structural problems like strain, deflection, cracks, corrosion or the loosening of bolts, says Chuck Farrar, a civil engineer at the Los Alamos lab. Once the sensors identify a hazardous change in the structure's vitals, such as its dimensions or temperature, they would transmit the information to a computer, which would analyze the data to figure out what went wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Early-Warning System for Bridges | 8/6/2007 | See Source »

...recent articles for the Boston Globe and San Francisco Chronicle, Sewall highlighted the lack of instruction given to U.S. troops when dealing with civilians...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Director Faces Flak For Helping Military | 8/3/2007 | See Source »

...company you keep may make you obese, according to a much-publicized study from researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of California San Diego...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Study: Weight Gain Most Prevalent Among Fat Friends | 8/3/2007 | See Source »

Some people buy time-shares in condos, others in canines. Yes, pet sharing--once the province solely of divorced couples--is giving free-market forces a scratch behind the ears. The nation's first rent-a-pup store opened its doors six months ago in San Diego when FlexPetz started rescuing dogs from animal shelters and renting them out for as little as a few hours or as long as a week. The company is doing so well it opened a branch in Los Angeles in June, and will be in San Francisco and New York City by September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Ready for Rent-a-Pet | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

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