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...wireless headphones. Once you have loaded up some MP3s or "rented" songs (from MTV's Urge or another Windows-Media-friendly, non-Apple music service), power up Motorola's $80 HT820 Bluetooth headphones. Tap the right ear, and a song starts playing. Tap the left, and the music gets quieter and you hear a prompt for voice-dialing. The headphones let you adjust the volume or skip songs even if the Q is halfway across the room. Unfortunately, the sound, compared to the same music played through typical wired headphones, is pretty...
...Xanana has said he would rather be a pumpkin farmer than President. Do you long for a quieter life? I wouldn't join him in pumpkin farming. I'd prefer to write a bestseller. I have been asked to write about my life, but my inclination would be for a book of my reflections on the world's troubles. I'd write it somewhere in the hills above Dili...
...they hail from opposite sides of the indie-musical spectrum. Oldham, who often relies on bare, folk-like musical backing for his back-country confessions, is here nudged towards the technologically deviant complexity of Tortoise, who are in turn obliged to accommodate Oldham’s tendency for a quieter style of shoe-gazing. Still, both groups are accomplished and thoughtful, and when both make concessions, they lend some old tunes some new bipolar beauty. —Staff writer Henry M. Cowles can be reached at hmcowles@fas.harvard.edu...
Leverett, Dunster, and Mather residents can look forward to some quieter study hours, as well as pizza, during the remainder of the exam period following a decision yesterday to postpone a particularly disruptive stage of the Cowperthwaite St. construction of graduate student housing...
...Cross said that many students would then be unable to eat a later lunch. Staggering hours in the houses, on the other hand, would result in overcrowding in some dining halls, particularly Adams House and Lowell House, Cross said. Also, breakfast is a far quieter time than dinner, when more staff and more food is required. “It’s not apples to apples,” Cross said. The subcommittee then suggested four more scenarios for Mayer and Cross to price. The first is to extend grill hours by one hour during dinner in one house...