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Surrey will seem balmy in comparison with his subsequent destination. On the evening of Jan. 11, on a rooftop in Liverpool, pinioned by the icy winds blowing in from the Mersey Estuary, the city's prodigal son will launch a year-long festival marking its selection as one of the two European Capitals of Culture for 2008 (the other one, Stavanger in Norway, is even colder). It will be Ringo's first rooftop performance since the Beatles' final gig atop London's Apple Studios in January 1969. That day, enveloped in a scarlet coat and insulated by his thick mane...
...controversy surrounding the magazine’s launch wasn’t a bad thing all around. When Current TV, Al Gore ’69’s cable channel, did a story about H Bomb, the crew interviewed co-founder Baldegg, who happened to be looking for a job at the time. She now works for the network, soliciting content. “H Bomb looks great on your resume,” Baldegg said...
...Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, founded the Web site with classmate Peter Freedman, a second-year at the Tuck School. The two thought up the idea after finals last year at a local bar, and say they are thrilled with their project’s results since its launch in September. The site has recorded over 50,000 votes already from its first two test campuses. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Starting next semester, students could find the size of their e-mail storage space multiplied by a factor of nearly twenty, as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) considers launching a pilot program to outsource undergraduates’ e-mail to an external provider. Following this fall’s successful launch of Google mail accounts for new students at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), FAS Information Technology (IT) has begun exploring the possibility of a similar pilot program for students in the College. As with the GSD system, the domain name of students’ e-mail...
...here for the painstaking negotiations over one of the planet's most vexing challenges - global warming. Then again, it is far too hot outside at this time of year to lie about in the sun, and the delegates are all too aware that if they fail, here, to launch a viable road map to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, humanity may fall fatally behind the accelerating pace of climate change...