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...five days a week. UC politicos celebrated Lamont’s 24/5 premiere by throwing a Finale and Felipe’s catered powwow in the library foyer. The fête turned into a mob scene as students trampled each other to snatch up lukewarm burritos and chocolate chip cookies. Even HUPD made an appearance to calm the masses. Clusters of tourists snapped on in amazement. Eventually, everyone returned to their carrels and resumed studying. As a result of Lamont 24/5, the library became the new slumber party (minus the pillow fights). Students began to camp out in the library...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell, | Title: We’ve Created a (La)Monster | 10/17/2006 | See Source »

...Still, the only information that will be stored on the card's radio transmitter chip, according to DHS, will be a serial number. And that number would then unlock a personal file inside a secure government database to be displayed to an immigration agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EZPass for the Border | 10/17/2006 | See Source »

After nearly seven fitful years, the Dow Jonesindustrial average hit a new high last week. Long-term blue-chip-stock investors who bought in January 2000, when the Dow peaked at 11,723, were even at last. Time to break out the bubbly? Maybe. Then again, maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: The Uncertain Bull | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...want to sell, a technique called billboarding. Bloomingdale's, for instance, billboards the smell of baby powder in its infant-clothing department, while hints of lilac and coconut waft around the department store's intimate-apparel and swimsuit displays. One of ScentAir's most popular aromas, freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies, has been adopted widely by sellers of model houses and real estate agents in North Carolina to make prospective buyers feel at home the instant they walk in. Upscale ice cream chain Emack & Bolio's recently adopted a waffle-cone smell to attract patrons to the scoop shop within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scents and Sensibility | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...made the digital photographs on a two-week tour of the Emerald Isle, during which he hauled some 60 pounds of equipment with him as he walked through Ireland’s lush landscape. The technique that Sullivan used to make the photographs is a complicated, exacting one. The chips found in all digital cameras are extremely sensitive to infrared radiation, Sullivan says. “They put an infrared blocking filter [in digital cameras]” he explains. “So what it does is prevent the infrared information from entering the chip...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IR-Land Comes to Three Columns | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

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