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Chatroulette: New online intelligence

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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 11:17 a.m.
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Navigating humanity ... Think of the history of online chat as you would the arc of a young American’s life ... Think of the history of online chat as you would the arc of a young American’s life. When Chat was 8, it began sorting through its parents’ record collections, finding bands and movies it enjoyed, aggressively asserting its identity. At 9, it began passing secret notes in school. After an awkward adolescence, it grew into its body at 15, tried out for debate club, and developed a

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J.D. Salinger: 1919 - 2010

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Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 4:40 p.m.
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In Memoriam ... J.D. Salinger was 91 when he died in his New Hampshire home on January 27, 45 years after he published his last known story, "Hapworth 16, 1924," in the New Yorker ... J.D. Salinger was 91 when he died in his New Hampshire home on January 27, 45 years after he published his last known story, "Hapworth 16, 1924," in the New Yorker ... He was often called the Greta Garbo of the writing world (she, too, retired from the public eye with roughly half of her life before her), and

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College implants

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Published Sept. 2, 2009 at 2:50 p.m.

Hoopleville ... A series of tubes   ...

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Photos: Kirsten Hassenfeld at Bell Gallery

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Published Sept. 1, 2009 at 3:28 p.m.

Kirsten Hassenfeld at Bell Gallery, Brown University, until Nov. 1, 2009 ... Photos from Hassenfeld's show at the Bell Gallery ...   ... Photo: Courtesy of the Bell Gallery ... Dans la Lune , 2007 ... Kirsten Hassenfeld of Brooklyn at Bell Gallery, Brown University, 64 College St., Providence, Aug. 29 to Nov. 1, 2009 ... Read more ...

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It Feels So Good When I Stop

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Published July 22, 2009 at 5:53 p.m.
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In this excerpt, the protagonist recalls his post-college years, in which he worked a crappy job at a restaurant owned by a racist ... In the winter of 1994, I graduated from UMass after four and a half years with a BA in English. I did pretty average; a lot worse than I might have done if I had given the tiniest of fucks about school. I decided to dick around until the summer and not think about my limited prospects, my withering University Health Insurance, and the looming crush of

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Muzzle Awards: Collegiate Division

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Published July 8, 2009 at 6:07 p.m.
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New England campuses muzzle free speech ... In a 1957 Supreme Court decision upholding the free-speech rights of university professors ( Sweezy v. New Hampshire ), Justice Felix Frankfurter quoted prominent South African scholars on the importance of academic freedom ... The 12th Annual Muzzle Awards. By Dan Kennedy ... In a 1957 Supreme Court decision upholding the free-speech rights of university professors ( Sweezy v. New Hampshire) , Justice Felix Frankfurter quoted prominent South African

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Mirror, Mirror

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Published July 7, 2009 at 8:00 a.m.
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Mirrors are a great, underused tool.While playing we often contort our bodies into strange positions – or worse: tension creeps into our limbs and causes awkward movements and posture ... Most times the fix for this sort of problem is as simple as observing it ... Because we can’t often focus on our entire [ ... ] ... Enter the code "cgbsubscribe" at checkout for a 20% discount! ...

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Review: Transformers

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Published June 24, 2009 at 6:04 p.m.

Mechanical failure; expect no change from this Transformers ... Revenge of the Fallen has already achieved at least one Hollywood first: it's the only major movie I know of to be released without press notes ...

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Heaven and Hell

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Published May 12, 2009 at 4:46 p.m.

Angels & Demons has it all ... Tom Hanks is back as Harvard symbology professor Robert Langdon, but the filmmakers have ditched the long hair and allowed Hanks to look like an early-fiftysomething (which he is) instead of The Da Vinci Code 's 40ish hipster wanna-be ...

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Bad girls

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Published April 28, 2009 at 3:24 p.m.
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Mary Gaitskill carries on ... People tend to make much of what they think of as Mary Gaitskill's fictional realm, a place of sexual transgression, of violence, violation, rape, and sado-masochism, and her female characters, the violated, the used, the users ... COLD, LOVING EYE: Suffering is everywhere in these stories, but so is compassion ... Don’t Cry ... By Mary Gaitskill Pantheon 240 pages $23.95 ... Mary Gaitskill's new book of stories starts in Ann Arbor and finishes in Addis Ababa,

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