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...last weekend, there was something different. In the bit part of a cartooned academic involved in some brand of undead madness was the spitting two-dimensional image of Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach. The chemist’s role was fleeting, but the impression it left in Dartboard’s supple mind was far more than the usual comedic glow produced by such a program...
Alas, such self-important dreams were not to be. No matter how suited the site’s particular brand of judgmentalism seemed to Harvard students, the same campus that ardently embraced Friendster this summer quickly and rightly condemned the facemash as hurtful and demeaning—not to mention illegal under a number of University regulations. The thrill of rating our fellow students and the chance at being named the third-hottest guy or girl in all of Leverett House were not, in the end, as powerful as the urge to protect privacy and defend ourselves against the potential...
...dating to 1911, features 25 guest rooms, according to Mike Marshall, president of Marshall Management Inc. in Salisbury, Md., which operates the property. A management company called Joie de Vivre runs four B&Bs in San Francisco, ranging in size from 10 rooms to 23 rooms, says Greg Horner, brand marketing manager...
...workplace is that it could allow offices to be more like they used to be. All that wiring has been shaping the way offices look--in some buildings, for example, walls are built not to support the structure but to carry cabling. Next year iAnywhere will move into a brand-new space on the campus of the University of Waterloo that has been conceived with wi-fi in mind. Patrick Simmons, a partner in the firm designing the building, RHL Architects, says wi-fi removes constraints that have become second nature to architects. "You were kind of tethered...
...Tamils who had to leave their homes during the civil war still languish in refugee camps, conditions in the north are slowly improving. In Killinochchi, an LTTE-controlled town that saw some of the fiercest fighting, a landscape of burned-out, bullet-scarred buildings is intermittently relieved by a brand-new office or restaurant. The LTTE has even opened its own caf? in town, where its guerrillas, retrained as waiters, now wield oversize plates of pungent curry instead of guns...