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...healthy, two-pound squirrel monkey that escaped from Harvard’s New England Primate Resource Center (NEPRC) last month was found dead by the side of the road last month, according to the NEPRC...
...like all the other kids, she won the U.S. Women's Public Links Championship, which makes her the youngest player ever to win a USGA event, and last week she made the cut at the U.S. Women's Open. But don't feel bad. Sure, Wie can pound 300-yd. drives like Annika Sorenstam. But she has yet to turn pro and start pulling down Tiger Woods money. Next year she plans to take on the men's tour in the Masters. When she does that, then you can feel...
...HUPD officers were sent to Pound Hall on Mass Ave. to investigate a suspicious package. Officers determined the package was harmless...
...weeks begin to drift by, the vision comes into focus, and while my wallet has the extra punch of a Corporate American Express card, I won’t be running to Foxwoods to place a million pound bet in baccarat—instead, I’ll be buying books to train myself in computer software. My license to kill has not yet been issued, but my license to search through public SEC filings for corporate tax return data seemed to arrive on my first day. Instead of a military-issued pistol and silencer, I’m armed...
Hard drives are the collective memories of our cleverest machines, the indispensable intellects of the information age. Yet Scott Gaidano, 58, president of DriveSavers, detests them. Most any data-storage device is, to his mind, a ridiculous piece of machinery. Ask him why, and he will pound his desk with frustration as he tells you how obscenely sensitive it is: a hunk of metal whirring around at 10,000 r.p.m. that dies if you drop it from 5 ft. The more we store on them--these days, everything from tax records to baby pictures--the more painful their death...