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...Pioneer Elite VSX-72TXV Receiver (pioneerelectronics.com; $1,200): This mammoth audio-video surround-sound receiver takes all different types of video, from DVDs, VCRs, cable boxes - you name it-and routes them through one wire to your high-definition TV. It's compatible with XM satellite radio's new "Connect and Play" technology: you plug in the special XM antenna and, as long as you've got a subscription, you get all of the XM stations listed right on the receiver's display, and on the TV. In fact, this receiver has so many bells and whistles, it's easy...
...financial deans at Harvard’s schools, provided by Berman, said that the recent years’ increases to endowment payout had not kept pace with the University’s soaring investment returns. Investment returns were up 19.2 percent last fiscal year, growing the endowment to a mammoth $25.9 billion. Harvard earned a 21 percent return the previous year...
...autobiography and transformed them into masterpieces of their form. But since graphic novels have gotten such a late start in finding a serious-minded audience, the coming-of-age story has only recently gotten enough work to even be called a sub-genre. Two years ago Craig Thompson's mammoth-sized Blankets, about growing up in the devout Christian hinterlands of Wisconsin, became the first such work to gain both critical and popular success. This month will see the arrival of two more very strong books based on the authors' childhood. Harvey Pekar's The Quitter, comes from a veteran...
...incapable of moving through is the quintessential Western nightmare: homebound on the range. Driving back from Bozeman that afternoon, I crunched some more discouraging numbers. I'd always heard that freedom had a price. And soon I'd determined what it was in my case, driving my mammoth, inefficient truck: 30¢ a mile. This meant that my high-speed gallop along the highway was costing me roughly a dollar every two minutes. I couldn't have been more flummoxed if I'd been told that I now had to pay a dime for every breath and a nickel for every...
...boosters are mostly traditional throwaways, and the best parts of the shuttle will be cannibalized to build them. A mammoth new heavy-lift cargo booster will be assembled out of two of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters and up to six of its liquid fuel main engines. This would be used to put an unmanned lunar lander and a small upper stage rocket into Earth orbit. A smaller booster, made of a single solid rocket and a single liquid-fueled engine, would then launch the four-person crew in the command module. The astronauts would dock with the lunar...