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Shortly after the Gizmodo item appeared, the tech blogger Robert Scoble fired back that he was in a Palo Alto frozen-yogurt shop supposedly frequented by Jobs and was told by a server that Jobs had been in for yogurt a "couple of days ago" and looked healthy. (For those doubting Thomases who say Jobs is a vegan and would never eat yogurt, the store in question serves a lactose-free soy product as well. So there...
Best friends from boyhood, now sophomores at Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif., Kayvon Beykpour and Aaron Wasserman, along with a group of five other friends, have built a free application for the iPhone that has the academic world buzzing. So far, their program, "iStanford," which launched Oct. 1, is pretty straightforward: users can access a campus map and course catalog, e-mail professors and get news and information about sports teams. Nothing wildly innovative about that. (See the top 10 iPhone applications...
...What was this "nurse-in" that your group held on Dec. 27? My friend Stephanie organized an event in Palo Alto outside Facebook headquarters for people who lived there. She also organized the online event where people posted profile pictures of nursing babies and changed their status to say that breast feeding is not obscene. We had a lot of people do it and it's obviously gotten us a lot of attention, which is what we want...
...some 11,000 protesters held a virtual nurse-in by uploading breast-feeding photos onto their Facebook profiles, and 20 or so women showed up at the company's headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., to breast-feed there. By Dec. 30, more than 85,000 members had joined a Facebook group called "Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene...
...movement. The long final movement, with challenging changes of tempo, sometimes came apart, as the orchestra seemed unsure and occasionally almost confused. Still, the movement (and the entire piece) was often transporting, ranging from a reluctant, fateful march to a bitter, resistant drone of the cellos under an expressive alto line...