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...subcategory of portable devices it calls "smartbooks" - small computers based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor that, because they don't require heat sinks or cooling fans, will be even thinner and lighter than many netbooks, yet can run for 10 hours without recharging and will be capable of fast wireless Internet connections via Wi-Fi and mobile phone networks...
...hunger strikes or tanks in the streets. But, he says, he inherited the legacy of the attack on student protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square that left hundreds, if not thousands, dead. Twenty years after the crackdown, just shy of his 20th birthday, Fan embarked on a 64-hour fast of his own, setting up camp outside a busy shopping center in Hong Kong's Times Square, some 1,240 miles (2,000 km) from Beijing. As he stood in his small, blue booth flanked by fellow students, a gigantic television screen - not a portrait of Chairman Mao - watched over...
...next step forward in self-improvement may be “unnatural.” But why worry? The fetishisation of the natural displayed by those who draw hard and fast distinctions between chemical enhancement and other forms of striving for excellence is dependent upon a senseless equation of the way things are with the way things must be. The argument loses its appeal when we realize that our bodies and minds were not created by an intelligent planner but by a biological process that sought to maximize the number of viable offspring, not the amount of human happiness...
...moving aggressively and ambitiously forward, and to making our unfolding plans a reality.”A year and a half later, with the world fully steeped in financial turmoil, that report in the Boston Globe—which suggested that Faust was distancing herself from the confrontational, fast-moving style of her predecessor, Lawrence H. Summers, and rethinking the University’s outsized Allston plans—seems remarkably prescient. The University has not only struggled to make ends meet in an unprecedented fiscal crisis, but it has also reined in its visionary—and what some...
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