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...Longwood campus in Boston--which includes the Medical School, the Dental School, the School of Public Health and numerous Harvard-run institutes--is compact but jumbled. A half-dozen hospitals share the surrounding area with a half-dozen other colleges. All have security, but not all have police forces. Boston police, the Boston municipal police force, park rangers and transit police have stations nearby, and everyone shares responsibility for the area...
...seats and lawn ornaments and tractor chassis into separate piles for recycling. All sandy hair and freckles, dressed in a life jacket, cap and khaki shorts and sporting a pair of wraparound dark shades, Pregracke could be a latter-day Huck Finn. His grin is impish, his body compact and coiled. Two lean, tanned young women in similar uniforms--Jennifer Anderson, 26, and Lisa Hoffman, 22--toil alongside him, heaving corroded truck tires onto a towering stack. "It's hard work, but it's fun work," Hoffman says, describing a regimen of 12-hour days hauling discarded Porta Potties from...
...much so that the stacks are omitted entirely from the map distributed at the information desk. The entire general fiction collection, for instance, is contained in one row of bookshelves along a single wall. While the Main claims about a million books, most are hidden away in special compact stacks accessible only to staff members, or in underground storage areas from which titles must be specially requested. Several floors of the building lack any bookshelves at all. A city report published early this year calculated that the library will require millions of dollars in renovations after only four years just...
...RIAA, this is not a happy future. "The $40 billion music industry's business," says TIME business writer Karl Taro Greenfeld, "is evolving, painfully, from selling products to simply providing a service. Selling compact discs was viable as long as the companies controlled the quantity and destiny of that music." Not any more. The question for the industry is how it can still get a slice, how to make sure that all the money they spend on starmaking doesn't disappear down some college kid's hard drive. And that's where the lawyers come in. Suits against Napster...
...HANDHELD $499, plus $40 a month Newcomer RIM takes on the handheld market with this compact organizer. A Web browser is coming this fall...