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...Shenandoah Valley. On Saturday, Kilgore appeared with Sen. George Allen, the presidential candidate and son of the legendary football coach, who was zinging around both the football and football analogies. When he told Kilgore the state was giving him the ball, the candidate held the pigskin with apparent alarm, not quite finding the laces. Kilgore's throws were wobbly but to the immense relief of his staff, he caught the ball one-handed when it was winged...
Your article "Biochips For Everyone!", on computer microchips that can be implanted in humans, set off alarm bells [Oct. 24]. While each chip contains a personal ID number that could be scanned like a bar code and provide needed medical data, there is a serious danger. The government or anyone smart enough to hack a security system could end up using biochips to track a person's movements and activity. Should biochips become commonly used, people might then be forced to have them implanted. And if that happened, anyone without a biochip could not function in this society...
...programs, I felt with more and more travel going on around the university, this was something that would supplement the insurance already in place,” Ross said. Harvard travelers will be given an SOS membership card with telephone numbers of the three major worldwide International SOS Alarm Centers. All University students, faculty, and staff are eligible to receive the benefits of SOS, regardless of the school with which they are affiliated. RMAS has been meeting with each school to publicize the program to students and employees. “We’re working with [the Faculty...
...noise was also the last thing some residents wanted. Since they arrived in September, these River denizens have had to endure the unceasing cacophony of construction outside their windows, starting at 7:30 a.m. each morning, and cranes carrying houses did not help. “I set my alarm for 8 a.m., but instead of being awoken by the pleasant sound of the radio, I heard the beeps from the truck backing up,” said Kathy I. Cheng ’07, who lives on the third floor of Leverett G Tower. Some Leverett residents placed bets...
...observed carefully for quite some time. And further, those implications may in many regards be overwhelmingly positive. But lest we cave in some sense to the demands of the ever-growing Facebook group which proposes the California Relocation of Harvard University, we ought to recognize that despite how irritating alarm clocks might seem, and despite how unappealing the blustery walk to Maxwell Dworkin might be, there really is something to the buildings and people that make Harvard what it is. And whatever that something is, it seems there’s a pretty good chance it doesn?...