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The operating hours of Harvard’s libraries can now be accessed by anyone with a Web-enabled mobile phone, the latest technological innovation available to patrons following the debut of a new search extension for the Firefox browser. Starting today, the new Web site, hcl.harvard.edu/mobile, displays a...
When he invited me to see him, I thought it was to say farewell. A law professor turned diplomat, he is not a supporter of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Instead, he has been aligned with the more pragmatic elements in Iran, and last month he was told that he was being...
Apple embraced this trend in a self-consciously ironic way. Its popular commercials pit a creative twenty-something (Mac) against a dumpy, unimaginative middle-aged man (PC). Their interactions constantly conclude that the Mac laptop fits an urbane, exciting lifestyle—though with a reassuring wink to consumers, so...
Take, for example, a consumer who is already committed to global redistributive justice: he will undoubtedly buy fair trade products—in addition to voting for leftist candidates and donating to Oxfam. Such purchases are a natural extension of his beliefs. Purveyors of eco-products do not need to...
But some find these calculations a bit too sunny. Michael Downing, Tufts University professor and author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time, says: "Congress has been studying this for 100 years and has yet to come up with reliable energy savings." Daylight saving does affect people...