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...part, Cowles “would like to pursue a larger discussion” of energy conservation on campus, “even though it’s not feasible to lower the health code...
...Washington about whether bin Laden had issued a new fatwa, or religious pronouncement, summoning supporters to violence. Some intelligence officials downplayed this interpretation, while others sounded the alarm. "People are worried," says an Administration official. "They're trying to see if there's anything in it that is code signaling that now is the time." The setting--in front of a well-lit backdrop--gave no immediate clue to bin Laden's whereabouts, compared with earlier tapes that showed him in mountainous settings. But the tape was at least easier to date. A reference to 1,000 dead in Iraq...
...betting that companies like sports-apparel giant Nike will incorporate its service into their business. Already, every couple of hours Nike sends a batch of orders from Nike.com to a UPS facility in Kentucky. Within minutes a UPS employee using a state-of-the-art radio-frequency bar-code reader, grabs the item--usually made in Asia and delivered directly to UPS--off the shelf. The product, often a pair of Nike's famous shoes, is then quality checked by another UPS employee, carefully packed and sent out the door within 24 hours. "While Nike is researching how to make...
...Hanson is a quality-assurance tester, who plays through every conceivable video-game scenario, looking for bugs, or problems, in a program before they hit the real world. Testers report glitches--a character walking offscreen, for example--to their company's programming department, which repairs the game's computer code. Then the game goes back to the testing department for further scrutiny, and the cycle repeats, often for months, until the game is bug free. "Testers are a special breed," says Richard Ditton, executive vice president of Incredible Technologies, the company that makes Golden Tee. "They somehow delight in breaking...
...Incredible Technologies, Hanson and his colleagues toil away in a dimly lighted room with charcoal gray carpeting, messing with the latest version of Golden Tee, due in 500 locales in November. Each tester has a code-melting specialty--simulating a drunken frat boy, for example--but all suggest that talent goes only so far when they're breaking games until sunrise. Admits Hanson: "You're just doing the same redundant thing, over and over again." Sounds par for the course...