Word: habited
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...songs Apple now has the rights to resell, Jobs added a couple of cool new features. The best is a monthly allowance you can set up for your kids to govern their online purchases--a godsend for any parent trying to curb an offspring's downloading habit...
...site is the brainchild of former Netscape engineer Jonathan Abrams, who christened friendster.com last March. The free site has already amassed more than 3 million registered users and become a regular habit for its hordes of mostly young, tech-savvy members. "It's totally a cult," says Janacek, 25, who adds that most of her friends already use the site. Friendster seems to be a hit with the suits as well. In late October it closed $13 million in financing--a bonanza in these frugal, post-dotcom days...
...self-improvement books inspired Piyush Tiwari ’05 to begin meditating again. He had practiced Hindu meditation with a music teacher in high school, but it was the self-improvement books his boss suggested he read the summer after freshman year that got him back into the habit. Some of the terminology reminded him of yogi texts he had previously read. “Those are kind of buzz words now in self-help books,” Tiwari says of phrases like “realizing your limits.” And though meditation is most strongly...
...logistical pieces--getting the students online, figuring out what all the rules were going to be, seeing how students were going to use them ... I think for a lot of the faculty it felt like being a first-year teacher again." Teachers and students don't make a habit of agreeing on things, but they agree on this: computers crash a lot. "Most computers that we have, have glitches," says Shomari, a sixth-grader at Packer. "They break every five minutes! After a while, you have no care whatsoever for your laptop. It's so, so, so annoying...
...while, happily, I have abandoned this habit, I still feel that my cultural non-identity puts me in a minority at Harvard. Given enough time, most conversations between acquaintances here will devolve into a discussion of the participants’ heritage, usually by way of a discussion of the etymology of their surnames. Lately, though, I’ve begun to wonder whether my classmates’ cultural identities aren’t as newfound as my Freedonian one—albeit more authentic. Our cultural identity isn’t important in our hometowns, where we know each others?...