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Companies are beginning to take note. In March, the $400 Dash Express became the first personal navigation device to communicate back to a server, rather than just passively receive information, such as traffic updates or where the nearest gas station is. Unlike other navigation devices, which rely on FM frequencies to receive updates, but can't communicate their own location, the Dash Express has both Wi-Fi and a cellular modem built in. Yet even the Dash Express can't be remotely located using this technology. "We are not technically capable of tracking exactly where a device is," says Mark...
...march into a tropical dungeon. When the Americans' bloody foot sores made it impossible to walk, says John Pinchao, a Colombian police officer who had been held with them until he escaped last spring, their captors gave them boots so small it made their steps only more agonizing. (The rebels finally hacked off the toes of the boots with machetes to lessen the pain.) Pinchao says the men trekked for days until they reached a FARC camp in the Sierra de la Macarena, where they were initially penned together in a slung cage whose low, barbed-wire ceiling prevented them...
This past Tuesday, March 22 marked Earth Day 2008: a moment of pause in order to reflect on the growing importance of environmental issues and the escalating problems of preservation and sustainability that have become some of the most pressing modern-day realities. In our day-to-day lives as students, family members, and friends, it is all too easy to lose sight of the fact that we are also inhabitants of a fragile habitat and therefore charged with the responsibility of caring for our planet...
...March 5, the city of Boston and Harvard University co-hosted a conference titled, “Green Cities: Lessons from Boston and Beyond” in which they discussed Boston, Harvard, and sustainability. Three green politicians gave presentations, and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and University President Drew G. Faust both made remarks. The problem of climate change is a concern to all of us, and Boston and Harvard should first and foremost be commended for arranging this event. Both Menino’s and Faust’s speeches were particularly illuminating—Menino?...
...will it end? No one really knows. Ever since a small group of Democratic operatives enshrined the proportional allocation of primary delegates in its party rules 20 years ago, the possibility of a months-long death march to the convention has both reflected the Democrats' proudest egalitarian instinct - and hidden the germ of their worst nightmare. That latter possibility has now arrived. There is no road map for where the Democrats are going; there aren't even many roads. The candidates and their aides have only a dim grasp of how the endgame will unfold, though some maintain a healthy...