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Representatives of the City Council’s newly formed town-gown committee—created early this year to deal with Cambridge’s front-burner issues of university expansion—also attended the meeting to express their support...
...upgrade their wireless data networks, fearing their countrymen do not have the same enthusiasm for photo-swapping, game-playing handsets as the Japanese. After spending billions of dollars getting government licenses to operate 3G systems, many debt-ridden carriers have put plans for network overhauls on the back burner. "The whole point of investing abroad was a speedy roll-out for 3G," says Yasumasa Goda, analyst for Merrill Lynch Japan Securities. "But clearly this is no longer realistic...
...iMac functions as well as it's supposed to, it will simplify your digital life like no other machine can. You can buy a PC with a flat-panel display and a built-in DVD burner for around $1,800, the same as the equivalent iMac. But it won't work as well. In part, that's because Apple gives away a number of core programs (iTunes, iMovie, iDVD and, starting this week, iPhoto) that allow you to control your creative life. They do what other PC software does. But they do it better...
...moving 3-min. shorts--is almost as simple on the new iMac, which features a fast G4 chip, just like Apple's top-of-the-line machines. When you're done creating your masterpiece (with iMovie), you can copy it onto a DVD (with iDVD, of course). A DVD burner is squeezed into the high-end $1,800 model. While it's hard to come up with a perfect Apple-to-PC comparison, a top-of-the-line Dell Dimension 8200, with a flat-panel monitor and dvd burner (plus a faster Pentium 4 processor and much larger hard drive...
...Before the war on terrorism, China had been the primary focus of Washington's hawks. But Beijing has dutifully taken its place among the nations "with us" in the war against terror, which has put everything else on the back burner. The old issues remain, of course: Taiwan's electorate handed the vigorously pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party a landslide parliamentary election victory two weeks ago, setting off alarm bells in Beijing. But the really big news that scarcely brooked a headline was China's formal induction into the World Trade Organization. Having plunged its economy into a giddy capitalist...