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...doesn't matter that the teenagers are playing a $5 buy-in poker game so excruciatingly slow that it would take a fortnight to run through Ryan's allowance. Gambling is gambling, and with today's endless hand wringing about kids and distractions, it is a scourge, a gateway to a lifetime of misbehavior and penury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents For Poker | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

...chip--opened his eyes to modern medicine's digital lag. "We are engineers," he says to the room. "We take the problem, decompose it and solve it." And not just any engineers, but engineers at City College--an up-by-your-bootstraps institution famed for offering the disadvantaged a gateway to the middle class. Grove, who slipped out of his native Hungary during the 1956 revolution, is a textbook case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next on His To-Do List: Save the Country | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

Last February, the University announced that it had taken the first step in assembling the new archipelago of buildings that will become the Allston campus, Harvard’s gateway to the 21st century. The selection of German architects Berhnisch Architekten for the design of Allston’s first biolab should be commended for recognizing that designing the future requires not only conceptual vision, but also vision on the scale of the built world. Harvard shouldn’t plan our new Allston playground as an ossified artifact of architectural regurgitation. With the innovative Behnisch architects, our new campus...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Allston's Concrete Future | 9/19/2006 | See Source »

...this—eventually.But until that day comes, use the Confi Guide as a primer on using (and abusing?) the Core, especially for incoming freshmen (and you juniors who still have six Cores left to kill).Those of you who wish to use the Core as your gateway to academic experimentation are welcome to, though this primer probably won’t help you much (but then again, you probably don’t need its help). For the rest of you, start by revising the way you think about the Core. Instead of viewing it as something that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Core | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...Some of these products may sound familiar, and others may be new to you. What they all have in common is that they report in, wirelessly, to a gateway that tracks everything and posts it on a secure website for you. A glance at your iControl Summary page tells you that the sensors are normal and working. If you have a freeze or a burst pipe, the system immediately sends you an e-mail, and of course registers the problem on the Web page. A chart of "recent alarms" also keeps track of when the door and motion sensors were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: iControl Home Monitoring Kit | 8/16/2006 | See Source »

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