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...Friday night, Harvard honored a legend...
...Earnhardt's legend grew, so did NASCAR's popularity, and in recent years both took on a nuanced appearance. Earnhardt settled down with Teresa, and by all accounts settled down a bit on the oval too. He came to be seen as a grand, grizzled gentleman of the game, the kind of athlete you take your kid to see, so that a decade from now the kid can say he once saw Dale Earnhardt drive. Another change: Dale Jr. joined him on the circuit. "These past two years, having Junior on the track, we've all seen a marked change...
Global-positioning technology for pedestrians--as opposed to automobiles--is still in its infancy. But there are at least half a dozen pocket-size devices on the market designed to mimic the in-car experience. I've been fooling around with two: the eTrex Legend ($249, from Garmin), which fits in your pocket; and the Geode ($290, from Geodiscovery), which plugs into a Handspring Visor...
Both units did pretty well at picking up satellite signals, triangulating my position and noting it on a street map--as long as I was outdoors and had a clear view of the southern sky. But it's hard to recommend one device over the other. While the Legend has by far the superior size, shape and display, the clunkier, battery-sucking Geode has better databases and expandability. I suspect the Geode will be the first to tell me where I can find the nearest Fleet Bank (and save me the fee for using some other bank...
...Legend, which is supposed to start shipping to retail stores this week, weighs a mere 5.3 oz. and has an "electronic bread crumb" feature called TracBack, which lets you retrace your route to your starting point. But the Legend's tiny memory--8 MB--means that for a big city like New York, you can't fit much more than street-level maps. Those are fine for finding an address, but don't expect them to recommend a good Uzbeki barbecue joint. For that, the Geode showed more promise. You can add as much as 128 MB of memory...