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...toward flat TVs. More and more television programming is offered in high-definition, or HDTV, format, which should boost LCD TV sales. (Traditional TVs can show HDTV programming, but sometimes not as crisply as LCD TVs, which are almost all HDTV ready in larger sizes.) In the not-too-distant future, flat TVs will be hooked up to PCs, which will record movies on a hard-disc drive. And then there's the get-the-neighbors-talking factor. Ritch Wheeler, 33, a sales manager for DaimlerChrysler from Denton, Texas, recently bought a 42-in. (107-cm) plasma...
...when instead of funny books on politics, the best-seller lists were headed by deadly serious books on sex. The 1948 Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and its 1953 sequel on female sexuality turned their author, Alfred Kinsey, into a star and a scandal magnet. But in a distant, Olympian way. Those were the days before TV up-close-and-personalized, and upended and trivialized, every newsmaker. Back then, the name Kinsey was a metaphor for the kicking down of America's bedroom doors and the cataloging of the dark secrets inside. The man, though, didn't emerge clearly...
...Until that happens - and it's a more distant prospect than Chirac's rhetoric suggests - Europe will face an America that has a far clearer sense of what it wants. Bush's promise last week to visit Europe early next year - "to remind people that the world is better off, America is better off, Europe is better off, when we work together," he said - might be seen by some as more of a threat. The re-elected President still hasn't spoken to Zapatero, who pulled Spanish troops out of Iraq in May. His predecessor...
...department. EPS encourages all its concentrators to apply for these opportunities, then they “magically pay for everything once it’s approved,” according to Bergin. There are also concentration-wide field trips during move-in week that whisk students away to such distant locales as the Rocky Mountains. Bergin explains that EPS emphasizes fieldwork because it is a discipline where “you have to physically be there...
...history as it is an imperative measure for an institution that supposedly sets the tone for every other academic setting in the nation. The future of Harvard College will most definitely include women, minority students, international students and future leaders, but currently only shows a picture of the distant past...