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...with much of the University’s administration waiting on the results of last year’s presidential search, Allston planning remained on the back burner...
...student occupation of University Hall on April 9, 1969 put the creation of a department on the front burner...
...last year saw a whopping 90% rise in the number of owners of computers with a drive that burns CDs (called a CD-RW drive, short for recordable/writable). A third of all PCs have one; 54% of new computers come with one installed. Half of CD-burner owners, reports Forrester Research, create at least one disc a month. Blank CD-Rs (discs on which you can record only once) bought in bulk cost as little as 25[cents] each. Making your own CDs--from your collection, from friends' discs or from downloaded tunes--is easier, cheaper, faster and more satisfying...
Americans bought 635,000 digital-audio players last year, up from just a few thousand in 1999, according to the market-research firm NPDTechworld. Electronics retailers sold 10.4 million CD burners (half of them installed in PCs), a 50% increase over 2000. Computer makers increasingly market their machines as rip-and-burn ready. Come June, you won't even need a PC to do the job. A firm called QPS is launching the first portable CD burner, called Q007, that copies directly from a CD player...
...presidency last year with military backing, and former TNI officers hold key posts in her Cabinet. Because she stresses the country's unity above all else (she has spoken of "the need for a force to protect our motherland from breaking up"), Megawati has placed on the back burner anything that might upset the TNI, the nation's guardian?like extracting it from politics and business and making it adhere strictly to human rights. "Reform is not solely the TNI's responsibility," says military analyst Kusnanto Anggoro. "Civilians, too, must decide what kind of changes it should undergo. The military...