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...think, is this it? You've got your car, your apartment, you can buy nice T shirts, but there's a need to create some value." The "virtual" dimension of work in an IT-dominated society also leaves him wanting more. "You transform data into a really good Excel spreadsheet for the next chain in the process, but what do you actually make? There's nothing like the satisfaction of doing something practical, with a physical result." If it sounds like the corporate world has a spiritual yearning, it's also true that the nonprofit world feels the need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Build a Team? Try Building a House | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

...percent of males and 26.9 percent of females of which self-identify as “binge drinkers” according to a 2002 Harvard College Survey. Regardless of the number of offenders, it should not be treated as just another extracurricular activity, another task at which to excel with all competitive zest. Lest we forget—as we tend to do, after a few beers—binge drinking carries with it a host of not-so-funny and potentially serious consequences...

Author: By James H. O'keefe | Title: Blackout Brilliance | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

...Counting People: Demography and Human Affairs,” a massively popular QR. It’s a class on demography—on birth rates and mortality rates. (Viva Professor Peter T. Ellison, death to snotty TFs 1 through 6). Ellison walks you through Excel, making the twenty-page country reports manageable, and he drops the lowest of your three quiz grades. But it doesn’t really matter when your TF manages to mark everyone down to a C. The class should add an extra problem set asking a couple of interesting demographic questions: How many students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quantitative Reasoning | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...central scroll wheel has a "free spin" mode, so that you can blaze through hundred-page Excel spreadsheets or Word documents, accelerating and decelerating until you get where you want to be. The scroll wheel actually engages and disengages the free spin depending on what application you're in, and what you're doing. If you are inching through a news story, you get the familiar bump-by-bump ratchet action, but if you land on your friend's mile-long blog and start scrolling, the ratchet bumps go away and the wheel's spin becomes Lance Armstrong smooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Two-Wheeled Mouse That Roars | 9/6/2006 | See Source »

...This team will be affected because she is one of our top players, but the Harvard team is strong and will continue to excel despite the loss of one player” she added...

Author: By Nicholas A. Ciani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Squash National Champion Transfers To Stanford | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

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