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...upgrade was that it could typically run only one application at a time. Now, an application can contact you even if it's not running, meaning you don't need to be using, say, an instant-message app to be alerted that you received a message. This fix, which lets apps alert users via text messages, also means that all those cool-sounding social-network apps that let you know when a pal is nearby will finally work. In geekspeak, this alert system is known as "push notification," and it's something software developers have long wanted. The ways this...
...Let's fast-forward a bit - you've now played some 10,200 concerts under nine philharmonic conductors. Is walking onto that stage before a performance now very different from when you started playing? There are a lot of similarities. It's the same rush, the same concentration. You try to make it a first-time experience. It's a challenge every time...
...other hand, is endowment-dependent. Spaepen, who declined to be interviewed for this article, is still taking things one step at a time. “I should not make any comment until I become director,” he said on the phone. “Let me just withhold my comments until I get there, OK? Bye.” —Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi can be reached at kavoussi@fas.harvard.edu...
...Let's leave aside for the moment that this plan was a four-page exercise in public relations that left out how many of the 47 million uninsured Americans would be covered, how it would be paid for or even how much it would cost. The plan - and the four others introduced by Republicans in the House and five more in the Senate - is indicative of how the GOP is handling Democratic efforts to pass universal health care: death by a thousand paper cuts. "There'll be lots of Republican plans. I think that many of our members will want...
...arrest, violence and even, in the case of one prominent advocate, disappearance. But this month's apparent disbarment of the country's top human-rights lawyers could permanently damage legal-reform efforts. "You can't pretend you care about legal reform and the rule of law if you let the vanguard of legal reform be decapitated overnight," says Nicholas Bequelin, a researcher for Human Rights Watch...