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Though ESPN.com, for example, has returned to its sports-reporting domain, a link in the upper right corner of its home page provides information on “Talking to kids about tragedy...
However, Marren says that if he, Green or Marinelarena are activated and forced to leave Harvard’s gates for battles unknown, they would only be the latest link in a long line of Harvard warriors stretching back to the nation’s beginnings at Lexington and Concord...
Dozens of institutions, from cafes to lumbering corporations, have already made it possible to link PCs and notebooks to the Internet without wires. If you have the right expansion card on your laptop, you can walk into a Starbucks in New York City today and, for a small fee, browse the Net over a high-priced cup of coffee. This revolution has also made its way into airport terminals and the homes of technophiles sick of tripping over cables...
...radio spectrum over which to exchange digital data. Bluetooth, named for a Viking king (one of its original backers is Sweden's Ericsson) and supported by some 2,500 companies that constitute the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, is basically a substitute for all those cables you now use to link peripheral devices, such as PDAs and printers, to other computerized devices. Chips up to 30 ft. apart built on the new standard can exchange audio and data at a rate of 500 to 1,000 kilobytes every second--more than 10 times as fast as your dial-up modem...
...nine years, Anna Homsi, tried to claim a war widow's pension. Since the two had never married, the Ministry of Defence said no. Like its counterparts in other European countries, including France and Germany, Britain's MoD has no provision for partners who have not established the legal link of marriage. (The couple's daughter, Georgia, born three months after Tinnion died, receives benefits automatically.) ? Last month, after the case stirred fierce public debate over the rights of unmarried partners, the MoD announced it would discuss a settlement with Homsi. She would not get the war widow's pension...