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CYBERCHEF Dinner would be so much easier if you could call your oven from work and tell it to start cooking. With smart ovens from Tonight's Menu, you will soon be able to. NASA technology keeps the roast cool until you dial in from a Web-ready cell phone to set the time and heat. All of which will cost about $75 more than a regular oven...
...door liners actually fit together without those yawning gaps). The wood on the top of the steering wheel is...wood. There aren't the bewildering array of buttons and switches that the Japanese taught Detroit to love. But there are some very useful, innovative touches, like the jog dial stereo volume knob on the steering wheel. The biggest problem I had: it took several days to figure out how to set the clock. At one point I pressed the "OnStar" button that offers a wireless link to a central operator for nearly all GM cars these days...
...CANADA: Something must be going on north of the border. Kirkus salutes another Canadian first novel: "Crow Lake" by Mary Lawson (Dial; March 5), giving it a starred review. "A finely crafted debut looks back to a young woman's harshly beautiful childhood in rural Canada...A simple and heartfelt account that conveys an astonishing intensity of emotion, almost Proustian in its sense of loss and regret...
Thus, HSTO is an endangered species, and I guarantee that within five years it will exist in a completely different guise. It simply cannot continue to operate as it does currently. But there are advantages to having a centralized system for University telephones, including the ability to dial everywhere on campus with a 5-digit number and the ability to have a 911 option that, unlike a cell phone, can automatically locate you for emergency services. Creating a new vision for HSTO that includes these services but costs students much less will take time and energy, but a first step...
...Activists scoff at such creepy comparisons, but some admit they are feeling pressured to dial it down. "The movement has been haunted by the need to have a very measured discourse for fear of being stigmatized as anti-American," complains Mathieu Triclot of Aaarg!, a collective of young French militants. For most activists, however, that may not be such a bad thing. "We were wanting to participate in events where violence was becoming a problem," says Ian Wilmore of Britain's Friends of the Earth. "Now violence is becoming more unacceptable. It strengthens [our] hand...