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...Washington, meanwhile, the new Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, has ended the series of rate increases introduced by his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, and Wall Street has been anticipating the start of a period of cuts as the U.S. economy loses momentum. This transatlantic divergence is pushing the dollar down. (Note, however, that Bernanke sounded a hawkish note in a speech last week, saying that inflation remained "uncomfortably high" - an indication that he won't be reducing rates soon.) The big question is whether the dollar will continue its decline over the next several months, or whether the recent fall...
...Sensors - devices that detect environmental changes - have been around forever in analog form. Traditional thermometers, for instance, use mercury that rises and falls as it responds to temperature changes. More recently, in the information-technology age, network-linked digital sensors are starting to take note of everything from soil conditions to water pollutants to electricity usage. Measurement equals management. The idea is to get optimal use of such resources as fertilizers and energy. But one restriction on modern sensors is that they are built with rigid materials like hard plastic and metal, which give them shape and volume, restricting where...
GESTURE Tucked a note between the stones, asking God's forgiveness for ill done to Jews...
...director’s note indicated that the goal of putting these two stories together was to illuminate the impact of technology on society—or, as the creatively adapted “turn-off-your-cell-phones” warning succinctly stated, “Technology’s a bitch.” However, the stories—and their juxtaposition—work most interestingly as an examination of fantasy and reality. “The Veldt,” in which a virtual-reality playroom takes over the lives of a family...
...game. She has been the team’s points leader in four of its five games thus far. Fellow sophomore and backcourt mate Emily Tay is the team leader in assists and steals, but has committed a whopping 38 turnovers through the five games. Another interesting statistic of note: Harvard has outscored its opponents by a combined 154-149 in the first half, but has been a poor finishing team, getting beat 221-156 in the second frame...