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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Given the effort put forward, I hope you, our parents, teachers and friends, enjoy this moment. We have put up with roped-off grass and early-morning mowers for this aesthetic picture. We have haggled over cap and gown deadlines and sweated through certain hours of class (I think especially of Core section) in order to ensure our attendance—working especially hard in this last semester, after you had already bought the tickets to come. With you here, all the tired standards of the Square and ironic inconveniences of Harvard life are new again. In your presence...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Snapshot Harvard | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...Cap-and-gown clad seniors filled Memorial Church to hear religious messages and a humorous address by outgoing President Neil L. Rudenstine at yesterday afternoon’s baccalaureate service...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rudenstine Jokes With Seniors at Baccalaureate | 6/6/2001 | See Source »

...desktop computers in the FBI are up to eight years old, with green screens and ancient software. There are virtually no high speed Internet access lines: Some field offices, Dies says, are wired to the outside world with antique modems hooked to one or two conventional telephone lines. To cap it off, agents are still mailing paper 302s, or reports of interviews, to other field offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why G-Men Need IT Professionals | 6/6/2001 | See Source »

Yuri Geller claims he can bend spoons simply by using his brain. In the South Korean city of Taejon, people are learning a very similar trick - though they need a computer between themselves and the cutlery. Here's how the experimental software works. You don an electrode-studded cap that monitors brain waves and sends data to a computer that displays a virtual spoon. Different types of mental activity produce distinct signals in the brain, and the computer can discern, in a crude way, what's going on inside your head. To make the spoon bend, you have to relax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brain Power | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...jarringly lifelike sex dolls. Each week between six and eight beauties are tarted up in bra, panties and stockings and loaded into rough wooden crates for delivery from San Marcos, California, to their new owners. The dolls' creator, 32-year-old Matt McMullen, is disarmingly normal. Wearing a baseball cap and faded jeans, he looks more grunge rocker than sleaze merchant. His merchandise, on the other hand, is way out there. The five body types range from sleek nymphets to one whose upper deck would make Anna Nicole Smith insecure. "We've actually scaled back from making the biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Well, Hello, Dolly | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

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