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...direct millions of federal dollars to her district. But the lawmaker from San Francisco can't pick her own car. For security reasons, congressional leaders are required to ride in vans or sport-utility vehicles driven by Capitol Hill police. Pelosi, worried about environmental impact, is no longer content to ride in a gas-guzzling black Chevy Suburban. "I want a hybrid," she told TIME last week. A few Governors and mayors have already switched to hybrid cars for their official use. But so far, Pelosi says, security officials have yet to find her a sufficiently up-armored hybrid...
...with it. Some naming schemes for technologies exhibit this in very pure form: they’ve come from verbs, as with the venerable toaster. The rest of the time, though, smart people invent things and give them names. For a while we’re content to talk about them as objects, but sooner or later we realize that their use is inextricably intertwined with their description, and so when we want to talk about using them we do the most obvious thing: we turn their name into a verb.Whether some of these verbs will stand the test...
...illness only serves as the thread around which the author weaves his other themes, illustrated in extraordinary black and white drawings that give form to ghosts and demons as much as real people. Deeply moving, stunning to look at, and a perfect marriage of form and content, Epileptic stands shoulder to shoulder with that other great comix memoir, Art Spiegelman's Maus. Spinning Art from Misery 6/18/2002
...purpose of a section is to reinforce, expand upon, and clarify the content of a course. Students should leave a section with a better understanding of readings and lectures. Rather than hear their fellow students make things up and regurgitate theory from Social Studies 10, students should enjoy sections in which their peers ask questions and offer new insight, while the TF’s supply answers and context...
...then the College had to go and rain on everyone’s parade by revealing just how they envisioned redesigning the space. To make a long story short, organizations—including those to whom secrecy is paramount, like The Harvard Salient—would have to content themselves with cubicles partitioned by curtains, instead of the office space of their dreams (think walls and doors). In an effort to Quad-ify Harvard students’ activities, University Hall has created a serious problem for a number of student groups which serve a large number of the undergraduate community...