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...shortage of Santa screensavers, online reindeer games and other amusements, much of it free. But while you may not spend any money, you could end up paying in other ways. That is, by downloading the freebies, you could be opening the door to a host of other things-extra programs bundled in with that candy-cane cursor or animated elf, that, if left unchecked, are likely to wreak havoc on your computer and kill your celebratory mood...
...contrast, I tested another pair of $200 noise-canceling headphones, the Solitude headset from Outside the Box, Inc. It wasn't as clear a sound, but it did provide more juice, owing perhaps to the second AAA battery it required. Besides a little extra volume, the Solitude pair offered something else that the Sony could use: a collapsable frame. Like I said, the Sony pair is beautiful, but it takes up a lot of room. The Solitudes fold up into a bag that's about half the size of the Sony...
...ravaged Fallujah ran out of ballots as high voter turnout prompted election officials across Iraq to keep many polling stations open an extra hour. Iraqi insurgents had imposed a de facto cease-fire, with masked members setting up checkpoints west of Baghdad to keep al-Qaeda from bombing voting sites. In addition to this day of relative peace in Iraq--reported attacks were well below average-- the Dec. 15 vote bore another marked contrast to January's violent election day: Sunni Arabs didn't boycott this time and instead turned out en masse, with the hope of tipping the scales...
...response to students’ concerns about privacy and security, the original plans for student group space in Hilles have been altered significantly to include doors on group offices and extra storage spaces...
...funding would have to come from cuts in funding for other projects or from increases in tuition. “There aren’t any funds that aren’t going anywhere,” he said. “To provide [the UC] with an extra $100,000 would require raising tuition by about $35.” Summers asked UC members to consider whether Harvard students would be willing to pay higher tuition in order to increase funding for student groups and HoCos. When some members of the UC suggested that Harvard misrepresented its support...