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...March, and "fall back" a week later, on the first Sunday in November. But the energy conservation that extra hour of sunlight is supposed to deliver comes with a cost: computer glitches that some fear could run to Y2K proportions. Companies with BlackBerrys and older computer applications must make manual adjustments or run software "patches" to revise internal clocks, often expensive endeavors...
...helpful guide to have around your desk—or, once you settle on your car, in your glove compartment. When you’re looking for a way to start a story or drafting questions for your next profile, an owner’s manual is never a bad thing to have around, even if it is a little redundant. —Reviewer Casey N. Cep can be reached at cep@fas.harvard.edu...
...since 1970 has been ruled by a small Shi'ite subsect known as the Alawites.) Sunni rulers maintained their monopoly on power by excluding Shi'ites from the military and bureaucracy; for much of Islamic history, a ruling Sunni lite treated Shi'ites as an underclass, limited to manual labor and denied a fair share of state resources...
...profitability after being hit with skyrocketing fuel prices and other problems. Yet this is hardly the end of JetBlue. Despite the turbulent weekend, the airline has responded quickly. On Tuesday, Neeleman announced a laundry list of improvements to the company's operations. These include more telephone operators to handle manual rebooking in the event of an emergency, improved software systems to track pilots and flight attendants and the creation of a reserve of trained, accredited workers at Kennedy who can jump in and help with flight check-in and baggage handling at a moment's notice...
...collection strategies: “self-reporting” allowing instructors to add information through an HCBIS account; “bulk upload,” permitting departments to upload textbook information for multiple courses at once; “data mining from syllabi,” requiring the manual input of information from course syllabi; and simple student reporting...