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...reason that the iPod is so successful is peer pressure: kids, embarrassed by clunky old CD players, joined the White Earbud Brigade to fit in. Now that so many kids have iPod nanos, the self-styled outsiders who may have previously chosen Apple for niche appeal are looking for an alternative MP3 player. SanDisk made news recently by introducing the highest-capacity flash player - the Sansa e280, with 8GB of internal storage. It's small enough, powerful enough and different enough to be the un-iPod of choice...
Advising: 1. Hit or miss. More “hit” in small departments (Hello, Sanskrit!), with veteran proctors, and, if all goes well, with the new upper class “peer advising fellows.” 2. What your friends will still do better than anyone else...
...Peer Advisor: 1. A socially conscious upperclassman who donates his or her time to hosting weekly study breaks and offering tame advice to first-years. 2. Probably a better source of academic advice than your official advisor (see Advising...
...even if your preceptor never learns your name, your sections are full of awkward silences, and the classmate who is peer-editing your paper knows more about his fantasy baseball league’s statistics than how to string a sentence together, know that the basics of Expos aren’t for naught. Expos gives you a strong baseline knowledge of how to write well; hopefully your future papers will be on topics that truly interest you, and where coming up with a motive will be second nature. —Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached...
...Homeland Security have dramatically stepped up the hunt. Though the exact figures are concealed in the classified "black budget," tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars are believed to have been poured into lie-detection techniques as diverse as infrared imagers to study the eyes, scanners to peer into the brain, sensors to spot liars from a distance, and analysts trained to scrutinize the unconscious facial flutters that often accompany a falsehood...