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...with representatives from the Dish, a satellite television provider. Crimson Cable subscribers will use Slingboxes, which allow access to cable television channels on the Internet. Unlike other proposals, the service will not require the installation of any cables. Castine hopes to make the service available across campus and will limit the number of Slingboxes to six per House. “I think of it really as a coop, just a bunch of students banding together to get TV,” Castine wrote in an e-mailed statement. “I don’t like to think...
...experience with Continental was just the opposite. As I approached the check-in counter, laden with two large suitcases to study abroad, the Continental counter person noted that one of my bags was one pound over the limit. But she followed up by saying my other bag was ten pounds below the limit. It was illogical, she explained, to reduce me to the humiliation of opening my bags right there and transferring one extra pound of items to the other bag. I was saved. I was loved. And for the cheap fare I had paid, I was shocked...
...attempts to regroup ended up being too little, too late.HE’S ALL RILED UPJunior goalie John Riley notched 15 saves in his 25-minute relief performance. Coming in late in the second period with the Crimson down by four, Riley deflected a number of shots to limit the Bulldogs to one goal-against.“I thought John came into a tough situation and played very well,” Donato said.Yale’s best chance to boost its lead came midway through the third period, as Bulldog Matt Nelson accepted a pass behind...
...BlackBerry era but after the advent of computers in their profession), the average time they spent focusing on a given task was about six seconds. They didn't have email to check, but they did have lots of other multitasking possibilities. Why only six seconds? Maybe this time limit is inherent to the nature of knowledge work. Thinking is, perhaps, like staring at a bright light. It's too intense, and you have to look away every so often...
...really has been a combination of things that have created the monstrosity that we are now in," says Barbara O'Connor, director of the Institute for the Study of Politics and Media at Sacramento State University. She cites inflation, population growth and mandates (like Proposition 13, which placed a limit on state property-rate taxes that resulted in restrictions on tax increases) as having a snowball effect over the course of 30 years. Add these to California's extremely high home-foreclosure rate and a global recession (approximately 1 in 4 jobs in the state has international-trade ties...