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Ultimately the question is this: Will having all that technology in the house empower us or make us feel uncomfortable? For that I ask Karuna Uppal, a program manager at the Yankee Group in Boston, a consulting firm that has polled Americans to gauge the extent of their desire for connected homes. Surveys show that only 20% would go the distance, buying the kind of house I saw at Cisco. Most, Uppal says, just want technology that allows them to network two or more computers at home and simultaneously access the Net from all of them. "We're seeing more...
...classes are not on the list. To earn a foreign language citation, for example, a student must complete at least four half-courses in a language, three of which are upper-level. These courses are often historical or literary and delve into issues of culture to a far greater extent than a Foreign Cultures Core; yet a foreign language citation does not fulfill the requirement, and students hoping to graduate are often forced to take less meaningful courses in order to meet the Core’s arbitrary regulations...
...miserable and lonely. It is important for the University to keep reaching out to students and foster discussions of these concerns, and ask students what they need to make them happy. This is not an unreasonable concern—students will always be competitive and stressed, to some extent, but the University (and especially the Houses) can make a difference by acknowledging that students are sometimes tired, frustrated and even depressed, and working with students to find ways to build House-level support systems and provide ongoing wellness events...
...cease-fire because he was warned by the Israelis and the Europeans and the Americans. He is interested at this stage to keep the Israelis away from his territory, not to strike against him. Technically he is interested in helping his own people. I don't know to what extent he is going to succeed...
...attacked by the Israelis. So on the top of his priorities is keeping the Israelis away from him. He is trying to convince his factions (including the radical factions) that for the sake of the interests of the Palestinians we need to keep the cease-fire. To what extent he is going to convince them, I don't know...