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...younger brother, the years of waiting were filled with long school days that included, after a quick stop at home for dinner, a 20-minute bike ride to a cram school for extra tutoring. As they rode home in the dark through the empty countryside, the eerie sounds of frogs and crickets would sometimes scare the brothers into frenzied pedaling. Street stickball was a welcome interruption. And whenever he could, Da-i would sneak off to the neighborhood store to leaf through comic books...
...their nifty buttons and sex appeal, handheld organizers have always seemed cooler in concept than in reality--too clunky and complicated to replace pen and paper. Then U.S. Robotics introduced its Pilot, the first palmtop to cram addresses and a daily calendar into a simple, 5-oz. electronic tablet. With a penlike stylus, users can jot down notes on the screen and transfer them to a desktop PC program like Lotus Organizer. ($249; Palm Computing...
...hard to think of a way to cram much extra functionality onto a pager, which is not expected to do much more than, well, pick up pages. That hasn't stopped the engineers at Wireless Access from developing a two-way pager that lets pagees send and reply to E-mail. The pager also picks up regular news, stock quotes and sports headlines and can be leased (the right choice, since the Skywriter costs $399 to buy) for about $15 a month. Pointing to each letter with the cursor may not be the most elegant solution, but it's your...
...ridiculous to hold popular events like Hillary Clinton's speech in the ARCO Forum. Why do the IOP and the Kennedy School cram about 800 people into the awkwardly-shaped space, when they could give some 1,100 people seats in Sanders Theatre...
...summer approaches, I'll try to cram ever more books into my list of must-reads and probably get through about 10 percent of them. That's how it always is: so many books and never enough time to read them all. At least in school, one can pretend that there are a finite number of required books one must read to be educated in a certain subject. In real life, there are infinitely many, as many as the possible variations on a Bach fugue. In a way, it's comforting that the store of knowledge is never exhaustible...