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Telecom standout U.S. Robotics has made a surprisingly strong entrance into the PDA market with the Pilot Organizer, sold by their subsidiary Palm Computing. At the same time, industry behemoth Microsoft is getting ready to jump into the fray with Windows CE, an operating system for PDAs that might bring some interoperability into the market...
...years, we in Cambridge have noted with glee Yalies' obsession with Harvard-bashing, while we have been able to stay largely above the fray (at least outside of Harvard-Yale weekend). Now that U.S. News has dropped us below Yale and Princeton in its annual rankings, the staff wants to mock our rivals (and now superiors) instead of address the facts at hand...
...talked about government, it was to describe it as the benign paternalistic arm ready to embrace America's civic life as a mirror of the homes baby boomers grew up in. Sarah Brady, the gun-control advocate, brought her wheelchair-bound husband onstage to deliver another above-the-fray message: Guns kill kids too. And of course Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to center stage with a coolly effective defense of her own child advocacy, as the image of daughter Chelsea loomed large on the screen behind her. (Message to the Other Couple: We know about delivery rooms and tonsil operations...
Members of the NASA-led team arrived in Washington fully prepared to enter the fray. They distributed copies of their peer-reviewed report, which the prestigious journal Science accepted for publication in this week's issue, and displayed some remarkable scanning electron-microscope images of the tiny structures found inside the meteorite...
Finally, Councillor Katherine Triantafillou entered the fray, urging even harsher measures...