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...students hastily cram for midterm exams this week, many will be flooding Lamont Library in search of a quiet place to study. Unfortunately, they will still be forced to leave at the early hour of 12:45 a.m. The Harvard College Library system rejected the Undergraduate Council’s proposal to extend Lamont’s hours. The council’s proposal would have extended library hours by one more hour each night, providing students with more time to study. Yet the decision to maintain the current hours flies in the face of many undergraduates’ academic...
...sensors that will read your vital signs--pulse, temperature, blood sugar and so on--and a satellite receiver that can track where you are. The company makes a pager-like gadget called Digital Angel that does both those things, and its engineers are doing their darnedest to cram Digital Angel's functions into a package small enough to implant. Once they do, VeriChip will be very powerful indeed. That's one of the reasons the Jacobses want to get involved. "There are endless possibilities," says Derek. "For me it's marvelous," says Leslie. "Every day I worry about my husband...
...Japan's economic crisis was once an abstraction: numbers on a chart reflecting decreasing bank reserves and increasing bad debt. The crisis is real now, very real, as everyone from the Prime Minister to the cram-school student knows. It's too bad that the country's co-opted and callous career politicians are still managing to keep their politics local and their aspirations factional, ignoring the fact that roads to nowhere will indeed get Japan nowhere...
...this scripted celebration of the last 100 days creates intense irony—now, more than ever, as seniors try to live in the present, to burn in their youth, they are thinking about their future. I don’t just mean that as these future alumni cram in their final hurrahs, most of them will be thinking about upcoming thesis deadlines, planning contingencies if their next job interview falls through or imagining what their friends will all be doing in 20 years. On a more fundamental level, for many seniors these last 100 days are not about living...
...ghastly Taliban executions in the past?Afghans squared off against international peacekeepers in a football game, the first live entertainment in the capital in nearly a decade. The event was marred by stone throwing, tear-gas firing and beatings as foreign troops struggled to hold back thousands trying to cram into the already brimming 30,000-seat stadium. Against the warlords, Karzai is similarly outmanned. Though he can count on widespread support from both the West and Afghans sick of the fighting and bullying, his rivals have weapons and the inclination to use them. Murder is a time-honored tool...