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...Lamont Library will be limiting service to first-year students and to students living in the River Houses. Quad residents are encouraged to make use of the University’s many other libraries, before they are slowly phased out. An additional cost-cutting measure has forced us to convert Widener Library into a student center for graduate students...
...that I am writing about anything remotely technological. As a young parent, it was I, rather than my child, who found the picture book “What Makes it Go, What Makes it Float?” revelatory. Younger staff frequently come to my rescue to perform upgrades, convert documents, synch my Sprint Treo, or print outsized spread sheets...
Willow Run is always trotted out as Exhibit A in the transformation of lower Michigan into the world's arsenal of democracy. It's a great story, and it's a true one; in 1942, GM took just two months to convert its Cadillac assembly line to one that could turn out tanks. The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor buzzed with boffins working on government contracts, and in 1948, the campus had 21,000 students enrolled - or a fifth of the total number of students at every university in France. Two years earlier, a veteran editor of the Detroit...
...Speckhardt says, "is to attract the interest of those who already believe as we do. We're not trying to convert people." Referring to a recent poll, he notes that more Americans view themselves as nonbelievers than the population of Jews, Muslims and Mormons combined. "Yet," he says, "you don't see that group having a caucus in Congress or anywhere else. It's a group that's been in the closet. People are afraid to 'come out' to their families and say they don't believe in God." The ads are designed to show lonely atheists that they...
...inspired partner to low-temperature-steamed turbot, butter whisked with Menton lemon and gossamer-thin ravioli made with turnip and a hint of Arabica butter. "I like to exalt the role of vegetables beyond mere condiment; it's part of a more feminine sensibility to cuisine but I invariably convert men, too," Pic says, smiling. (Read TIME's stories about romance on the road...