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...HIGH-DEFINITION) GAMES BEGIN Microsoft's Xbox 360 has the advantage of having already shipped, but Sony's competing game console may be worth the wait. Due out this spring, the PS3 is supposed to have better graphics and will support up to seven wireless game pads (Xbox 360 allows four). PS3's best advantage: it will play high-definition Blu-ray DVDs. But at an expected retail price of $400 to $500, it won't come cheap. TAPPING INTO THE POWER OF FUEL CELLS Could Medis Technologies turn the Energizer Bunny into roadkill? The company's disposable $19.99 fuel...
...presidential campaign beneath the cloud of the forgery allegations and then in elections last month lost his parliamentary seat amid widespread allegations of voter intimidation. To seal his fate, a state security court sentenced Nour to five years in prison last week and had him hauled off to begin serving his time. Even if Nour is exonerated on appeal, his lack of a parliamentary seat removes him from eligibility to run for president again in six years...
...Where to begin? Well, first of all, proponents of ID point to what they insist are serious flaws in Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. The truth is that the theory is not only an overwhelmingly powerful explanation for how life on Earth manages to come in such a bewildering array of different types, but the only such theory in science. Like any scientific theory, it can't explain how every aspect of every organism came to be, but each time scientists find new evidence-fossils of dinosaurs bearing feathers; fossils of the mammals whose descendants are whales...
...first day of a strike there’s a sense of camaraderie and an obligation to fulfill responsibility that keeps people’s tempers occupied,” said Herbert A. Hochman, an Upper East Side doctor. “But after the first day, when people begin to suffer more, there’s a larger sense of frustration...
...University-wide session was held last Wednesday evening at Holyoke Center about the various fellowships. Descriptions of the fellowships were posted on the Harvard employment website on Friday. Applications are accepted until Jan. 27, followed by an interview and selection process that extends into March. The new fellows will begin work in July. —Staff writer Ying Wang can be reached at yingwang@fas.harvard.edu...