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When a Harvard professor speaks, America’s intellectual elite listens. Fame broadcasts their insights in all the usual places: section, book covers, and even on CNN. But, it is not often that Harvard witticisms adorn the bumper of your Honda accord. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard Professor of Early American History, has succeeded in capturing a mobile market with her quote, “Well-behaved women rarely make history...
...operating system, Windows XP, almost two months ago. And Ol' Sparky rarely seizes up now. Before XP, my computer tended to crash about three times a day, which is probably par for most hard-core users of Windows 95, 98 and ME. Most PCs crash as frequently as bumper cars. If Windows XP did nothing more than increase stability, I'd gladly pony up my $99 for an upgrade when it arrives in retail stores Oct. 25. Bad news for my checking account: Windows XP does more than make PCs stable...
...technical college in Le Locle gears up for a bumper student intake this autumn, that reassuring message is getting through to the most unlikely places: for the first time ever, one of those apprentice watchmakers will be Japanese...
...Congress, she found herself up against a nearly unbeatable Republican Congresswoman. Kathleen seemed unsure how--or whether--to capitalize on her biggest political asset: her maiden name. The name explained why national reporters were trailing her quixotic campaign, but she didn't use it on her bumper stickers and declared that she was running "as my own person...
...April showers bring May flowers, what pops up when it rains through most of May and June as well? A bumper crop of mosquitoes, as communities from Texas to New Jersey have learned only too well this summer. The best reason to avoid being skeeter bait is, as always, the sheer human misery of dealing with all those itchy red welts. But this summer there's also the chance, admittedly small, of more serious consequences, especially now that the West Nile virus is spreading up and down the Eastern seaboard...