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...category of ultra-mini PCs like the FlipStart and the OQO2 is threatening to make computers as portable as cell phones. Two, wi-fi is becoming ubiquitous. Google and Earthlink have a deal in place to supply all of San Francisco with free wireless Internet access. Philadelphia, Anaheim, Calif., and Madison, Wis., already have it, as do dozens of other cities and towns. Within 10 years, most of urban and suburban America will be bathed in free wi-fi service. Airlines are expected to fire up in-flight wi-fi in the next 12 months...
...apart from the served spaces, the offices, factory floors, auditoriums or galleries, in separately articulated volumes. By that means you could divide a single building into an ensemble of varying forms. So Kahn put slender brick stairway towers up the sides of his 1961 Richards Medical Research Building in Philadelphia, where from some angles they give the illusion of free-standing sentinels beside the glass-and-brick towers that hold the laboratories. At Rogers'Lloyd headquarters those externalized stairways reappear, this time wrapped in coiling steel. In later Rogers buildings they appear again, and to finer effect, enclosed...
...anymore, I hope. Ram Cnaan, a social work scholar who is my colleague at the University of Pennsylvania, has documented that, in Philadelphia alone, religious congregations supply scores of different services to the city's low-income families. A conservative estimate of the replacement value of those services--what it would cost to supply them through government or for-profit firms if the congregations ceased--is a quarter-billion dollars a year...
Harvard then heads north for the onset of the Ivy League season, getting a taste of the Gehrig division with double-headers Saturday and Sunday as it travels to Philadelphia to play Penn and then to New York to face Columbia...
Plenty of offensive talent can be found in Philadelphia this season, led by the double play duo of Christina Khosravi and second baseman Annie Kinsey. The Quakers have not had a winning season in 26 years, but that could change this year. Being in the division with Cornell and Princeton will hurt Penn, however, in its attempt to win the league title...