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...molten lava met the cooling seawater. See if you can spot the Camel, the Granny, the Giant's Boot and the Wishing Chair. The polygonal basalt columns are perfect for a midafternoon seaside scramble. Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge Once an even shakier bridge used by salmon fishermen to access a tiny island they used as a fishery, the now tourist-safe bridge, less than a kilometer from the harbor of Ballintoy, is a thrilling way to cross over a 25-m-deep chasm. From the island, gaze back toward the mainland at wave-carved cliffsides full of caves...
...Finding the Net Turndown service is nice, but wireless is even nicer. To supplement old-fashioned amenities, some hotels are trumpeting free high-speed Net access that lets you log in without worrying about wiring. For a list of such hot spots, check wififreespot.com Surf in Bed No wi-fi? No problem. This portable Netgear Travel Router converts your hotel Web access into a wireless connection so you can manage work from anywhere in your room. Plugging In Tumi is known more for luggage than electronics, but its new travel kit features a handy electric adapter that works for laptops...
...classes. Creating a database of class videos, the “new Widener,” would benefit both undergrads on campus and alumni all over the world. It could even open lucrative new revenue streams—possibly even subsidizing the program itself—if we sell access to the database a la iTunes. Regardless of the means chosen, the ends would be to create a parallel endowment not measured in dollars in foreign investment funds, but in our professors’ wealth of knowledge. And we might even be able to trace our next Frost?...
...Core Office, library liaisons, and graduate students in each department will now work with professors to make better use of electronic resources. In the past, students have paid twice for the copyright to some course materials, once in their termbills to pay for the library’s access to electronic resources, and once when they purchase a course pack, which can carry a hefty price tag. Next semester, materials in the Ec 10 sourcebook will be linked to online, where they are available to students at no additional charge. The sourcebook, which was singled out in the UC?...
...that Harvard faculty are especially pampered or privileged compared to faculty at other, similar universities,” Elizabeth Spelke, who is Berkman professor of psychology and has worked at Penn, Cornell, and MIT in the past, writes in an e-mail.Professors with children say they do not have sufficient access to daycare and do not receive the same financial support that their colleagues at other schools get for their children’s tuition.And many female professors say they are especially concerned about what they call Harvard’s lack of attention to gender equality when it comes...