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...book industry braces for a digital revolution similar to what happened to the music industry more than a decade ago. So far, Amazon's Kindle has had a first-out-of-the-gate advantage over rival e-readers from Sony and Barnes & Noble. But industry experts believe the recent launch of Apple's highly anticipated iPad tablet, a device that offers Web-browsing, e-mail and other laptop functions in addition to an e-reader, could be the Kindle's biggest threat yet. Apple has already signed up five publishers to sell e-books for its iPad. "There's clearly...
...started winter break in Nicaragua for two weeks of volunteer work with other college students through Friends of Students for 60,000, an organization that oversees continuing community development projects in small villages in the country. We helped launch the “Tengo Un Sueño” program, providing classroom and community support to a class of first graders. It was an amazing experience because of the enduring relationships we established with the local community, teachers, and community liaisons...
...Undergraduate Council will launch its Harvard for Haiti Web site this evening to help coordinate Haitian relief efforts between the UC and House Committees, according to UC leaders...
Smith said he would split the viable working group recommendations into three groups. In one category, he placed those options that he deemed most feasible and for which he would launch “targeted implementation groups.” The second group was a conglomeration of ideas that “would be discussed further.” The final group of ideas would be tabled indefinitely and “reserve[d] for future consideration,” Smith said...
...midair on long flights. The Air Force crew aboard told me that on occasion, the fuel nozzle from the floating tankers has smashed through the pilots' windshield like an angry space creature. It's one of a handful of planes coated with nuclear-attack shielding and capable of emitting launch codes to all U.S. missile silos...