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...people, furious debates over the merits of Macs vs. PC, announcements for various student groups, mice spottings and other such gems. The Black History month e-mails constitute 6 percent of the total e-mails sent over Lowell open in the month of February. It is hard to fathom why Black History month e-mails, and not anything else, would be considered “spam...

Author: By Michelle Kuo, C. DUANE Meat, and Najah S. Waters, S | Title: Lowell House List Posts Show Need for Tolerance | 3/4/2003 | See Source »

...just what to make of Schrodinger's thought experiment. But that has not stopped them from exploiting the bizarre rules of quantum physics to make computers whose tiny registers can be both on and off--registering 1 and 0 at the same time. As hard as it is to fathom, theorists have proved that such a machine--a quantum computer--could perform multitudes of calculations simultaneously, leaving the mightiest supercomputers choking in the dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Purr of the Qubit | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...been demoted 33 floors from her mahogany executive suite to a "skanky office" with a rickety metal desk and a pile of make-work projects. The atmosphere had grown so ominous that she had called office security for advice on self-defense. But still, Watkins simply could not fathom that this company, the one she had tried to save from itself, had considered taking away the job she loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sherron Watkins: The Party Crasher | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

...George Gibbs and Emily Webb--Newman is at the front of the stage for much of the show but in the shadows for most of the drama. He has no showy emotional moments, his thin voice struggles to fill the house, and there's no camera to help us fathom the depths of his twinkling eyes and brooding face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Cool Hand Comes to Town | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

...foreseeable future their main battleground will continue to be Europe, the largest market for Scotch with exports, now worth $1.4 billion annually. For reasons nobody has been able to fathom (unless they've actually tasted ouzo), the Greeks drink more Scotch per capita than anyone else. Equally surprising, the French buy more whisky in a month than Cognac in a year. France remains the largest importer in volume terms, but higher margins make Spain's market more lucrative. Last year it was the world's top market for Scotch in value terms with sales worth $460 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whisky Business | 11/17/2002 | See Source »

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