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...thing right-it drew juice from the iPod?s own battery, so its streaming adapter was smaller and didn?t need to be charged. The Logitech adapter?s universality has a drawback: it has its own battery, which must be charged. You get around 8 hours of life per charge, though, and you can charge it while playing, so it?s not the kiss of death...
According to a recently released report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cambridge saw 12 rapes in 2004—the lowest number of “forcible rapes” out of all major cities. Amounting to about one rape per 8,500 people, this figure is far below the national average for similarly sized cities. Yet FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz said that, although Cambridge’s rape statistics are impressively low, rape has by no means disappeared. By some measures, in fact, it has worsened nationwide. Although there was a national decline in total crime from...
...that America’s domineering and swaggering use of the inch and the pound is closely linked to our nation’s going to war in Iraq. Let’s not forget that, if we switched to metric, gasoline would go from costing (on average) $2.73 per gallon to $0.72 per liter—we all know that wouldn’t please Cheney’s Haliburton friends. Unfortunately, even a person as erudite as Michael Moore failed to see the close link between the war and the U.S. customary units when he called his insightful...
When will Harvard (and America) join the rest of the world? We cannot and should not continue with pounds-per-square-inch when we could be using the far more elegant pascals. We cannot and should not continue with drams and stones, when centigrams and kilograms could be used instead. Metric is elegant (think: the French), while Imperial is ugly, cocky, authoritarian. (Perhaps it should continue to be used in the “red states,” but not anywhere near civilized folks...
...smarter children.The study, published in the October issue of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives, is a new wrinkle in the debate over the safety of fish consumption for pregnant women.Currently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends that pregnant women limit their seafood intake to two servings per week.FDA guidelines say that some types of fish, such as shark, swordfish, and king mackerel, contain high levels of mercury, which has been shown to cause nervous system defects and occasional death in infants. “For most people, the risk from mercury by eating fish and shellfish...