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...problem, but that's being solved, too. This month Samsung Electronics plans to launch the first phone with a miniature hard drive, ? la the iPod. Called the SPH-V5400, the phone has 1.5 gigabytes of memory?that's less than half the 4 GB on the iPod Mini but still enough for 300 songs. The price is estimated to be a wallet-straining $800. Other handset manufacturers?like Nokia, the world's largest?are considering making phones with hard drives...
...break the gridlock, Musharraf proposed that Kashmir be divided up into seven regions based on geography and ethnicity - and not necessarily on religion. (Muslims are in a majority in most parts of Kashmir.) Next, he said, both India and Pakistan would withdraw troops from these mini-regions, one by one. It would then be left up to the Kashmiris, along with New Delhi and Islamabad, to haggle over whether they wanted India and Pakistan to jointly administer the territories or place them under U.N. control. Could it work? Former Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said: "Mapmaking has to stop...
...scientific statesman during and after WW II. Ottaviani and Purvis take care to explain the concepts behind Bohr's multiple scientific breakthroughs, making the book a kind of illustrated primer on atomic physics. It was Bohr, for example, who proposed a model of the atom as a kind of mini solar system, with electrons orbiting around a nucleus. But this had its limits, both experimentally and "philosophically." So he moved to introduce Quantum Mechanics as a system of atomic theories best known for its postulation that the act of observing something affects the results of that observation. An electron...
...self-penned Umbrella Manifesto (www.umbrellamanifesto.blogspot.com), but a sampling of the things Hwang has planned for Harvard are: standing outside of the Science Center in a suit and tie at lunch every day for a week reading digits of pi, getting a $100,000 grant to organize a mini-college that focuses on Internet education, investing in rental properties in Cambridge, and of course, world domination. “The dream is to topple third world governments and read the New York Times before it’s published...
...play’s set design, by Benjamin J. Toff ’05, deserves mention for its ingenuity; Toff places TV sets around the stage, which at the appropriate moments show the actors performing additional mini-scenes or ’50s commercials that portray the American lifestyle that Durang parodies. Aside from their humor and thematic appropriateness, the TVs give the audience something to watch during scene changes...