ABC How to Be the Life of the Party Stressed out about the office Christmas party or your neighbor’s drop-in bash for New Year’s Eve? You could send your regrets, or show up and hide in the corner while pretending to text all night. Or you could go the other way and dazzle the guests with your outfit, wit and charm. Here’s a guide […]
Late goal gives Real Madrid life – and ignites a city’s passions MADRID — Outside City Hall late Saturday night, a man is on his knees, hands over his face, head pointed toward the sky as if in prayer. The screaming fans running past barely notice. They’ve got enough to think about. Real Madrid has won the championship in one of the most unexpected and anticipated contests […]
WVU is nation’s No. 1 party school for 3rd time; Utah’s Brigham Young most sober for 15th year The current rankings are in the 2013 edition of “The Best 377 Colleges,” which goes on sale Tuesday. There are 62 ranking lists, each based on surveys of 122,000 students during the last school year. Students answered 80 questions about academics, administration, campus life, the student body and themselves.
There’s a hole in the state’s climate efforts: elementary education “It’s really a unique time period to educate them about environmental science and climate change so that this becomes something that they value and are committed to over a lifetime,” says Sara Ewell, a Northeastern University professor and a third-party researcher studying the effectiveness of the nonprofit’s work in elementary grades.
Slate Egg-freezing parties aren’t like tupperware parties The latest trend in assisted reproduction is egg-freezing parties, sales events often described as the “new Tupperware parties.” In the I Love Lucy era, Tupperware parties were a marketing breakthrough that made Tupperware plastic storage containers wildly successful. Hosting parties offered women a way to earn money at a time when Rosie the Riveter was […]
Baker, Coakley campaign at biotechnology forum Last week it was tech. This week, biotech. The major-party candidates for governor sought to win over life-sciences professionals at a forum in Cambridge on Monday. But neither discussed specific ways they would help the growing industry that represents companies developing treatments for disease.
Politico The KKK is a terrorist organization This weekend, three people were killed in violent incidents outside Kansas City. From the earliest reports, the killings bore all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack. There is still no consensus over the definition, but terrorism usually denotes a nonstate actor attacking civilian targets to spread fear for some putative political goal. And here we […]
No, Rand Paul, There’s No Reason to Cut Unemployment Benefits Rand Paul says he cares about the unemployed. He says it’s “our moral obligation as a society to take care of those who cannot take care of themselves.” That “no one asserts that the problem [of long-term unemployment] is people not wanting to work.” Rather “the problem is not in the minds of the unemployed, but […]
WCVB TV Investigators review Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Twitter feed Some of the messages are typical of a college-age teenager, talking about doing laundry and playing beer pong. But over time, Tsarnaev’s tweets are also evidence of a transformation. Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox analyzed Tsarnaev’s writings. “You see throughout these tweets a mixture of ordinary activities and partying for example, yet a growing […]