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...Code Red. One open-source program, the truly excellent Web browser Firefox, has been downloaded 150 million times. SourceForge.net a website that coordinates open-source work, is currently host to almost 15,000 projects. Internet behemoth AOL, which shares a corporate parent with this magazine, open-sourced its instant-messaging service just last week...
What makes a handbag hot, in some cases even before it hits the store shelves? It could be Lindsay Lohan's endorsement or a placement in a big box-office movie. And a handbag can become an instant best seller because of one quirky design detail, like last season's Fendi Spy bag with its weird dangling closure...
...should be matched with a peer academic advisor with the same residential affiliation, and with common academic interests over the summer. Consequently, landfall could be made in the advising relationship before the school year even began. The common ground that would be established by House affiliation would create an instant connection between advisor and advisee...
...instant before it happened, one camera's eye caught a tableau that might serve as the late 20th century's most succinct text on the metaphysics of terrorism. There, on a mellow May afternoon at St. Peter's Square, beneath the encircling Bernini columns, the most vigorously gregarious of Popes rides slowly through a sea of tourists and pilgrims. It is a rite of sweet human communion. The Pope reaches out for babies in the crowd. He gently blesses the faces that give back a radiant daze of whatever it is that they see in the man--celebrity, charisma, holiness...
...instant obsession of the girls. Caitlin and Vix start off experimenting with one another, move on to having sex with two handsome local boys in later summers, and finally, competing for the same man’s attentions...