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...directly on the new chip (for instance, Logitech's mouse and keyboard drivers), there are two major hold-outs, Adobe and Microsoft. You can use most of their programs on the new Macs, but they run only with help from Apple's invisible Rosetta software translator. My wife, an avid user of Office apps on her new employer-issued MacBook Pro, says that when she has several Office programs running simultaneously, she notices delays in typing and other subtle sluggishness. "It's microseconds," she says, but admits that it can be irksome. Microsoft has pledged to make the next version...
...Kelley and Nolan are shaking up the local political scene, and the two Cambridge upstarts have a lot in common. They’re both professional consultants, parents of two children, avid cyclists, and—most significantly—both share a deep-seated frustration with the city’s school system...
...gave up the summit to see that he survived.Osborne says such an act is “bullshit.” “If the guy’s alive, he’s talking to you, you can help him,” he said. Osborne, an avid mountain climber, skiier and snowboarder, said that he spent the last two years working four jobs to finance the $25,000 expedition and training for it. Osborne was climbing to raise funds for Naomi House, a children’s hospice in his native England.“Every penny...
...Sitting in his Bedouin tent in Tripoli a year ago, Gaddafi clearly fancied himself a man of the future, not a revolutionary dinosaur. An avid Web surfer, he tapped a thick finger on a keyboard and stared into the glow of a flat screen computer. He likes the English news on Google but had trouble maneuvering there on the day TIME paid him a visit. Instead, he clicked on one of his Favorites, a site called Gaddafi Speaks. "You have my views on reforming the United Nations, the problems of Palestine, Korea and Turkey?s admission to the European Union...
...been humming these songs for 50 years or more), was indulgent, enthralled, in the moment - at once in the present and the beloved past. When an on-stage screen flashed the lyrics to "Moon River," almost everyone sang along, in tribute to Mercer, their huckleberry friend, and to the avid consumers of great pop music they all, we all, were...