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...flavor may be similar, but they're different institutions and different locations--in Santa Barbara, you're in California, and Santa Barbara is a compact city," Narayanamurti says. "It could be quite similar in that it has a strong flavor in engineering and computer science, but Santa Barbara has no business school...
...such a great service," says Mass. Hall resident Rachana N. Shah '03, who first ordered a $10 compact disc from Kozmo earlier this year and continues to order from the site--despite living across the street from Store 24. "On really lazy nights when you're writing a paper and you don't want to go across the street, it's nice to have people come deliver stuff...
With the spread of instantly accessible digital media, music will no longer be constrained by the time limits of a compact disc. Single pieces of music could be 75 minutes long, or six months long, or virtually infinite. With the sequencing technology that I have in my home studio now, I could start playing a piece of music that would still be playing five years from now. People in the future will be able to drive down the road and, through voice commands, take the drums from a Led Zeppelin song and put Billie Holiday's vocals...
...something. Ferret ownership has doubled in the past five years; 6 million are now in U.S. homes, placing them third in popularity among mammals, trailing cats (55 million) and dogs (50 million). Adult ferrets weigh between 1 1/2 lbs. and 3 lbs., perfect for compact living spaces, and the species' record of good behavior--according to the Animal Health Institute, ferrets are 200 times less likely to bite than dogs--makes them ideal first pets. Then there's the ferret's hip intellectual profile. "They're not pack animals," says Shefferman, "and they don't learn by rote, like dogs...
...those admirers who still wanted to hear the artist recite his own work, Williams joked that his second book does come with a compact disc...