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...country is not conducive to the transmittance of cell-phone waves. So now I’m back in Cambridge without a phone, and though occasionally I catch myself admiring the compactness or the brilliant blue buttons of the latest spiffy cellphone model, I don’t miss mine at all. When I am suddenly plunged into a Twilight Zone moment in which I am the only person on a street without a cell phone glued to my face, I am unsettled but also satisfied that I can take notice of and soak in the surrounding cityscape in quiet...

Author: By Kristin E. Kitchen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Technostalgia | 3/13/2003 | See Source »

...police feel about the Alert system? Local law enforcement officials believe the system works, but they say they need more money to implement it successfully. Sensing a need (and a political gold mine), U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kay Bailey Hutchison have introduced legislation to boost funding for training and equipment

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amber Alert: Does It Work? | 3/13/2003 | See Source »

Poets are the new pundits. As the debate over Iraq mounts, verse more than ever is the genre of choice. What got Tom Paulin into trouble is getting others a lot of attention: harnessing the moral power of words to mine the political significance...

Author: By Sue Meng, | Title: The Poet-Activists | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...joints. He clasps his hands over the table. “I want to go nationwide with my restaurant,” says Pappas, a three-time Mass. state bodybuilding champion and health food entrepreneur. “Florida would be nice—that state is a gold mine. So is California. Out there, it’s a mecca of health...

Author: By Matt J. Amato, CONTRIBUTINGWRITER | Title: Know It All | 3/6/2003 | See Source »

...minute drive from hay bails in one direction, and the ghetto in another direction. Our downtown area even has bums. That’s one of the three criteria for official status as a city: cross walks, tall buildings and bums. I was talking to a friend of mine from Berkeley, Calif., and she informed me that no one there goes fishing. I was saddened by this, but probably no more saddened than she would feel if she learned that no one in Kansas cross-dresses...

Author: By Sam A. Winter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Who You Calling a Hick? | 3/6/2003 | See Source »

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