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There were sexier announcements made by Steve Jobs last week, like the new line of nanos - super slenderized, brushed aluminum 4GB models that come in pink, green, blue and silver (for $199) and the bold black one ($249) with 8GB capacity. However, I thought the 80GB iPod was more situated at the center of Apple's big picture: movie downloads at the iTunes Store and a future in the living room. Once I had an 80GB iPod in my hand, I discovered that the wait for a living-room option wasn't as far off as Jobs had indicated...
...picking and room-decorating decisions. Thanks to the new toilets installed in every bathroom, they must choose not only when to flush, but which way. The name? The dual-flush flushometer. The verdict? The jury, quite literally, is still sitting on it. The dual-flush flushometer is a leafy-green, antiseptic-coated toilet handle that controls the amount of water used in each flush. Specifically, students flush upwards for “1” and downwards for “2.” The new handles were installed in the hope that the reduced water usage (1.1 gallons...
Agganis Arena. 925 Commonwealth Avenue. Take the T to Park Street, transfer to the Westbound Green Line “B” train to the St. Paul Street stop. $35. www.agganisarena.com...
...save even more water with an upward push on the handle—let’s call it “flush number one”—which is intended for that very purpose, and uses a mere 1.1 gallons of water per dose. Furthermore, the green toilet handles are, according to the new placards, bacteria resistant, so there’s no need to flush with your foot. And at only $15 a pot, it’s not just Mother Earth that will save a little green, Harvard will, too, in long-term water costs...
...usual, he made the point more bluntly. "Laura believes strongly in the power of literacy to change societies," he said. "You can't have prosperity unless people can read. It's just as simple as that." After the President left, the group enjoyed a luncheon of chilled green pea soup, grilled wild Alaskan salmon, and glazed autumn vegetables, and corn pudding and deep dish apple pie, with performances by the Dance Theatre of Harlem and the Young People's Chorus of New York City...