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Osama bin Laden may be contemplating his "martyrdom" in a cave atop Afghanistan's White Mountains. Or he may be thousands of miles away, smugly congratulating himself for having eluded the U.S. dragnet. Either way, America's battle with al Qaeda is far from over...
...quiet Sunday morning in Silicon Valley, I am standing atop a machine code-named Ginger--a machine that may be the most eagerly awaited and wildly, if inadvertently, hyped high-tech product since the Apple Macintosh. Fifty feet away, Ginger's diminutive inventor, Dean Kamen, is offering instruction on how to use it, which in this case means waving his hands and barking out orders...
While Christmas bells are ringing this season, if history holds true cash registers at multiplexes across the country will be humming along. All the major studios will be unveiling their year-end ornaments, all aspiring to be placed atop the lucrative box office tree. For the film industry knows that the best antidote to those awkward family moments (especially after the first semester of a young elf’s first year at Harvard) is an escape to the cinema, a place where folks can forget about shopping and little Jimmy’s bad grades and get lost with...
...league play approaches, Harvard will be out to prove that a different pace will translate into a different outcome atop the Ivy standings...
However, Niagara is ranked No. 8 in the nation and Northeastern is No. 4. Both teams sit atop the ECAC East standings with identical 8-1-0 records in league play...