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...epochal challenge: creating a generation of humanoid machines that boast the kind of butlering skills of classic science fiction robots. "Imagine a machine that's as versatile as a human but that works 24 hours a day and does all the household chores," gushes Hirose. "You can't really attach a price tag to what it offers...
...problem is, although we attach a lot of brouhaha to goodbyes, the ritual is not terribly logical—or terribly meaningful. According to convention, we should use goodbyes to relay exactly how much the other person means to us, how they have changed us, and how they will be remembered. It may be a harmless custom, but it is certainly not a meaningful one. For whatever affection or flattery is uttered in those final moments should pale in comparison to the expressions of appreciation that have built up and sustained a friendship or relationship. Those close to me know...
PHONE FUN Pictures in the wallet are so 20th century. The new, cool way to carry snapshots of your dog or your daughters is in--what else?--your cell phone. Attach the Sony Ericsson T68i phone ($300 to $400, available this summer) to a special snap-on camera module, and it can click and store up to 200 digital images. You can even beam pictures to other T68i phones or e-mail them to a PC. With so much to look at, who has time to talk...
...with students). Likewise, the employer with two numbers on a student’s transcript guesses that student didn’t have to work hard for that common seminar A but doesn’t know how to prove it (because there is no need, of course, to attach substantive qualitative remarks to transcripts or to overextend the faculty by asking them to provide comments on each student...
...chosen with a mandate to fix the neglected heart of the University: its undergraduate life. But what does he want to fix, exactly? Saying he wants to improve the College is far too broad. He needs a cause to which he can attach his name and considerable power. He vowed to increase the size of the Faculty. He vowed to improve advising. He needs to figure out what he’s going to do and stick to it. He wants to enlarge the Faculty? Then let’s see him personally focus on recruitment. While concentrating...