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...Carried by its long fold-out handle, the iBook could be a sleek, flat fourth-grader's lunch-box. It is a laptop with a sense of humor--almost ridiculous in its rejection of more serious stereotypes of computer. Designed to live in someone's backpack, it can be handled with relative impunity. Colored like a pre-school toy, it can be considered with a modicum of flippancy and easy camaraderie...
While its colors and photographs are gorgeous, the guide is flimsy and would not last a week in my backpack. What students actually need is a one-piece poster with a simple map and a table of all the hours, phone numbers, collections, and lending policies of the libraries. On the reverse side, it could include a map of Widener, or a brief summary of important HOLLIS commands. If it were made of good laminated cardboard stock, students could fold it up and put it in their backpacks or tape it on their wall next to the Harvard Shuttle schedule...
...contents strewn around the barrel along with a pair of shoes from another room. (Earlier that morning, Rubin had noticed the sneakers in the trash, but thought little of it, thinking just that they were somebody's "old kicks.") At the bottom of the barrel, Stevens found Gibson's backpack with his TI-86 calculator and history of the USSR notebook. Stevens' Harvard I.D., his debit card and all his cash--about $20--were taken from his wallet. Why didn't the robber also take Gibson's calculator? Gibson theorizes that the burglar didn't take his calculator...
...device exploded in the student's hands before he placed it in his backpack...
...student who was injured intended to put the sparkling and smoking device in his backpack...