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...owes much of its appeal to Motorola's revolutionary handset. But a clone is an imitation, often a pale one. My instinct is that what Motorola started with the RAZR, other companies mean to finish. The CU500 - the first phone to tap into Cingular's new "High-Speed Downlink Packet Access" (HSDPA) network - is next in a stream of upcoming slim and powerful cell phones...
...stage curtain watched over by the Queen's portrait and a packet of sparklers are the simple sense-memory props that begin the journey: we are backstage at an end-of-year school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Puckish Tom (Leon Cain), the son of poor English migrants, is making his first tentative teenage overtures to middle-class Meg (Francesca Savige); her shrewish mother Gwen (Barbara Lowing) in turn is being gently snubbed by the headmaster's aloof wife Coral (Georgina Symes). As the three families go their separate ways over Christmas?to camp, caravan park and Gold...
Ironically, Taylor relies on junk-food sales to make her menu healthier. "This is where I make money," she says, her hand on a packet of Cool Ranch Doritos. "That money allows me to buy more fresh fruit and vegetables." Taylor makes other food healthier by stealth. Chicken nuggets are baked, not fried--a switch she made over spring break so kids would be less likely to notice. Pizza is topped with low-fat cheese, and the crust is whole wheat. She calls vegetarian beans "pork and beans" since, she says, "in Oklahoma no one knows what 'vegetarian beans' means...
...affirmation of the rights of campus gay students but instead with a paper solution that will please only administrators embarrassed by discussion of the issue. The Gay Students Association (GSA) several weeks ago asked Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, for permission to enclose a leaflet in registration packets. Though it amply documented the fact that other groups had been given similar permission in the past, Epps decided the time was propitious for a review of the rules. He discovered that all those other groups-controversial outfits like Phillips Brooks House and the Radcliffe Choral Society-had been given...
...culture of Harvard, there was still a lot of support for overt homophobic behavior,” he says.The first of a series of contentions erupted in November 1980 when the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life refused to include a leaflet from the GSA in its packet distributed to registering students. The committee avoided the issue by agreeing to send out a separate packet with information on all student groups.“I have to say on the whole that the students were far more sympathetic than the administration,” Schatz says.There was also an uproar...