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...survey uncovered student complaints about oversized classes and not enough student-faculty interaction—problems the strategic plan was primarily designed to fix...
...know something's out there you can't do something to fix it," says the agent. "That's why so many agents kept their stuff locked up in their desk where it couldn't get screwed up." Name a sensitive, headline-making case and you can find a flap over lost-and-found documents. The humiliations range from the Congressional investigations into director J. Edgar Hoover's massive COINTELPRO domestic surveillance program to the overzealous terrorism investigation by the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) to the Chinese espionage cases of the late 1990s...
...most painful conversation I keep overhearing--other than "I'm getting into the elevator now. You're breaking up"--is the one in which people complain about gas prices. It has become such an incessant whine that the Senate set up an entire subcommittee on how to fix the problem, taking away valuable time Senators should have spent trying to woo James Jeffords with hookers...
...meant to replace your trusty iMac: it is an industrial tool. Xybernaut sells these machines - a few hundred, thus far - to companies that have a large, widely dispersed maintenance staff. Bell Canada's workers, for instance, climb up poles and down manholes to fix phone lines and maintain highly sophisticated equipment. Rather than carry a bagful of printed manuals, workers strap on MA-IVs, which have all the manuals on their hard-disk drives. If a worker encounters a tricky problem with a particular router, say, he can switch on his video camera and beam live images to a supervisor...
...fair, there are plenty of useful things I could do with the technology that fills the Cisco home. On a hot summer's day, I could phone my air-conditioning system and tell it to switch itself on half an hour before I arrive. I could have carpenters fix a kitchen shelf and monitor their progress from my office, using a webcam. And I'd love to have a webpad that allows me to access the Internet wirelessly from anywhere in the house, including the john...