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...much sympathy for the store. “If they want to get their revenue up they should slash their prices,” Zafran said. “I think if anything, this policy will have the reverse effect because if students aren’t allowed to comparison-shop, students will just get all their books online,” he said. —Staff writer Gabriel J. Daly can be reached at gdaly@fas.harvard.edu...
Thomas added that the free network’s speed—which would depend on location, weather, the number of users, and the users’ online activities—could vary between one and 54 megabytes. In comparison, University high-speed wireless internet usually runs consistently at 54 megabytes per second. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Students hoping to save money on textbooks this fall will have the services of a student-run price-comparison Web site at their disposal for a third consecutive semester, despite a history of administrative reluctance to support the project...
...More than 60% of Japanese households are now equipped with washlets, and the unit available in the public bathrooms of the Tokyo Midtown pales in comparison to those that grace many Japanese homes and hotels. For just $5,000, Japan's largest toilet maker, Toto, offers the deluxe Neorest 600. It boasts, among other functions, five cleansing modes (front, rear, pulsating, oscillating and soft), a lid that automatically opens and closes, an air purifier, a massage option, an air-drier with adjustable temperature settings and an automatic flush. Most functions can be operated by a wireless remote control linked...
...approximately 250 metric tons of CO2 emissions that would have resulted from generating the same amount of energy as these two renewable energy projects would pale by comparison to the more than 2.5 billion metric tons of CO2 generated yearly at conventional American power plants...