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...allocate spectrum space for them and, if so, how to distribute it fairly. Even if some countries grant spectrum as early as next year, others could lag behind by several years, holding back the mass production of equipment on which industries rely to lower costs. And if different countries assign different frequencies, handset vendors would have to build phones for separate markets - a logistical hiccup that would eat into profits. "Spectrum allocation is the biggest problem we have on our plate," says Hyacinth Nwana, Arqiva's managing director of mobile media. For the moment, at least in Europe, the mobile...
...believe that Harvard admissions are based purely on academic merit, I would assign incredible naivety. The Harvard admissions process seeks to select a diverse group of interesting and talented people in a variety of areas: music, drama, public service, background, business, writing and, yes, sports. This broad emphasis is not at all a bad thing and it is a part of what makes Harvard the amazing place it is. Universities that accept students based on pure academic ability alone can never offer the environment that allows Harvard students to grow and develop the way they do outside of the classroom...
Choosing friends is one of the greatest—though scariest—things about college. So go out there and introduce yourself. Get some digits. See what you have in common (or not) with others around you, and don’t assign some false value to groups that seem impenetrable. I’m sure that you’ll find at least a dozen different groups that you’d like to hang out with, or at the very least, an Annenberg breakfast partner. It is possible to navigate among the swarms of faces to find...
...spend hours hand-picking roommates, a number of other elite colleges—including the University of Pennsylvania, Washington University, Brown, and Cornell—conduct the process mostly by computer. Other schools such as Johns Hopkins and Tufts first divide up students based on dorm preferences and then assign roommates by hand—working, by that point, with much smaller pools of students. Of the nine colleges The Crimson contacted, only Dartmouth and Stanford also match roommates entirely by hand...
This public showroom for personal pics is one of the fastest-growing --and most addictive--social networks on the Web. Upload your images and assign identifying tags to help others find your stuff. Groups share interests: cats, say, or the color blue. Free membership includes 20 MB of uploads a month. Or you can turn Pro and pay $25 a year for a host of perks...