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...have a confession to make: I'm thinking about converting. I'm having trouble believing in my Mac anymore; all the cool stuff on the Web comes out for the PC first and sometimes never even makes it to my desktop. It's dawning on me that the Windows I've scorned for so long might in fact be the One True Way. I've always been an honest, DOS-fearing man, so I go in search of spiritual comfort from the ultimate convert himself: Steve Capps. Capps didn't just abandon a long, brilliant career at Apple. He joined...
...Chambers' story is larger and more interesting than just that event. For a brief, hilarious season early on, at Columbia University, he campaigned for the 1920 Republican vice-presidential nominee, Calvin Coolidge; but in the mid-'20s he pinballed leftward and joined the Communist Party, animated by an anguished convert's zeal. A melodramatically ernste Mensch (serious man), as he liked to say, Chambers began as a useful party "literate," hacking away as a foreign-news reporter for the dreary Daily Worker, contributing to the New Masses...
Rudenstine says that since climate control is only a temporary fix to the problem, the current challenge is to find a more efficient way either to treat the books themselves to prevent the decay or convert them to digital form...
...Fund sued Harvard and a developer, Carpenter and Co., after the city Planning Board granted them a permit to convert what is now the Harvard Square Hotel into a six-story office building. Eventually, the University dropped its plans to develop. The developer sued the Defense Fund, but the case was settled out of court, according to Defense Fund President Gladys "Pebble" Gifford...
...idea is to convert the defensive People's Army into a modern, mobile attack force capable of projecting power beyond China's borders. Top priority is a blue-water navy to carry troops into areas remote from the mainland. But the Pentagon estimates that it will be at least 20 years before China can rival the U.S. Navy, and it is an open question whether any regime can bear the expense of seeking military superpower status...