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...this is not a story of instant gratification. Even on a more mundane level, you don't get instant gratification with the iPad. By the end of that night, I decided to rent a couple of movies. But you can't just do so and watch in an instant. Forty-five minutes after ordering the director's cut of Donnie Darko, I gave up and went to sleep, letting that movie and Dune (yes, I'm a geek) download throughout the night. But you know what? After the dark night passed, joy came in the morning. Me and my iPad...
...what could be a preview of the Ivy League Championship Series at season’s end, the Crimson feels confident about its position...
...funding crisis in European higher education is unlikely to improve anytime soon. "There's quite a lot of anxiety in the system," Flather says, cautioning that short-term cuts will have long-lasting effects on universities. Undermining these "engines of democracy," he adds, could end up being more costly than people think - not in terms of dollars and cents, but in the future well-being of European societies. "We're part of the future, we're part of recovery," he says...
...streets of Port-au -Prince, the catastrophe still seems so much closer in time, as if it has just happened. Monstrous piles of rubble still hold the remains of thousands of earthquake victims. Haitians drift with no purpose during the day, returning to insecure shelters at night. (See the end of the search for Haiti's last lost American...
...when parliamentarians backed a draft law that would ban Muslim women from wearing the burqa in public places. The Justice and Home Affairs Committee voted unanimously to endorse the move, which must now be approved by parliament for it to become law. Such a vote is expected by the end of April, which would make Belgium the first European country to implement a ban. Because of the support for the measure among all the main political parties, it is likely to pass. (See a story about Europe's "veil wars...