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...seedbed for little magazines, the American soil is fertile but thinly spread," wrote TIME almost 60 years ago to the day. "Last week a cluster of new ones bravely poked their heads above ground. The most promising was Hudson Review, edited by three young Princeton alumni." Well, ahem, we know how to call it. THE HUDSON REVIEW puts out its 60th-anniversary edition this month, celebrating its longevity with a concert at the Guggenheim Museum and a book, Writes of Passage. The Review, which promised at its inception not to "open its pages to those whose only merits...
...colony while disguised as an “unpollinated daffodil,” while a photo essay explores the outsourcing of the “American lava lamp industry to the islands of Indonesia, where lava is cheap, plentiful, and harvested by thousands of natives.” A spread features a picture of a lion composed of many smaller pictures of human breasts, described by the Lampoon Web site as “Boobs you can look at in the dentist’s office.” “Parody is a form of flattery...
...thousands of years, the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains and plying the oceans, planting crops and building highways, raising skyscrapers and atmospheric CO2 levels, and observing, with tremendous and unflagging enthusiasm, the Biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply across our world's every last nook, cranny and subdivision ... So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars...
...leaders that the College would be remiss to exclude. Space constraints have always been one of the most limiting factors in admissions, for both freshmen and transfer applicants, and we realize that the current issues are of pressing concern. However, if a mere 40 transfer applicants were accepted and spread out across all 12 houses, the additional space constraints per house would be minimal. Furthermore, alternate solutions like using temporary or grad dorm housing, cutting the size of the incoming freshmen class, or reopening housing in places such as Massachusetts Hall, could have been employed in place of eliminating transfer...
...bire came to national attention earlier this month, when French media picked up on her plea to get help ending her life. Her malady, esthesioneuroblastoma, causes inoperable tumors to grow in and spread from the nasal passages, disfiguring and destroying the face before finally destroying the brain. The disease had already blinded and otherwise handicapped Sbire, and left her wracked with pain for hours on end despite medication to allay her suffering. Sebire explained her request for medically assisted suicide saying she wanted to leave the world following an evening of celebration with her three children - and avoid...