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This region of super-heated gas, Elvis said, is shaped like a disk in NGC 1365’s quasar and is a source of X-ray radiation...

Author: By Diane J. Choi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scientists Observe Eclipse of Quasar in Galaxy | 4/16/2007 | See Source »

...every seduction conjured up a brand-new way to be,” she recounts. Darling provides a laundry list of the sundry men she’s tumbled into bed with during the temporal black hole since that bedtime chat freshman year: “a progressive-rock disk jockey in Richmond, Virginia; the faux scion of a Polish count; a marijuana-runner on the North Carolina coast.” Enter debonair White House correspondent Lee A. Lescaze. They meet for drinks. He compares her to a character in a Ford Maddox Ford novel and she?...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Is This Really ‘Necessary’? | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

...mail. Students at Penn complain about frequent shutdowns and lack of server space. “[Penn’s Webmail] really sucks,” said Penn sophomore Irmina A. Gawlas. “I get an e-mail every day saying I’m over my disk quota.” Both Google and Microsoft claim that the current versions of their program packages are free, though Microsoft requires that institutions use their identity data management system. Google’s fine print reads that the free offer extends only to those schools that enroll during...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Google May Host FAS Webmail | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...mayhem ensues, involving a chic-looking teacher and her careless students. (What Cromartie High School does for boys, and Linda, Linda, Linda for girls, this one does, in suppurating spades, for teachers.) I confess I didn?t see it all of Devil 2 - not from squeamishness, but because the disk provided to me had the name of the production company printed in large letters across the image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Eastern Standard | 6/23/2006 | See Source »

...anywhere-but-China factor. Korean giant LG Electronics exports to the Middle East from appliance and consumer-electronics factories near Pune and New Delhi because it's faster to ship to those markets from India than from China. The company recently opened another Pune plant to make optical-disk drives for Europe. "We didn't want to depend on the Chinese for everything," says Kim Kwang Ro, managing director of LG Electronics in India. "Our company decided to diversify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drive to Compete | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

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