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Debuting as the hottest handheld electronic device since Tamaguchi, Gay Raydar, a hand held buzzer that alerts its wearer when another Gay Radar wearer is close by, is all the rage in California. Entrepreneur Michael Borer has tagged the item a must have in an effort to take anonymous venues for meeting other gays out of the chat rooms and onto the street. Gay men, and even lesbians, concedes Borer, will be able to carry a personalized detector of other gay people also carrying the device within fifty feet...
...works like a walkie-talkie, simultaneously sending and receiving information from other carriers. Users can select preferences, such as “dance,” “butch,” or “horny, “ in order to screen potential hookups. The Gay Radar responds more forcefully when the person detected fits those preferences. When it zones in on a particularly hot homosexual, Gay Radar goes wild, beeping, flashing, and vibrating, a particularly subtle signal that there may be love at first detection...
...Radar really necessary? Whatever happened to good old-fashioned intuitive gaydar? “My mama always said that if it looks like a gay duck, walks like a gay duck, and talks like a gay duck, then it probably is one real gay duck. Thus, I think Gaydar would be a tad gratuitous,” commented Ryan Wilkes ’03. Other students appeared to agree with Wilkes. “If you want others to know you’re gay, an extra-small T-shirt from the Gap seems sufficient...
...CUBA Russia Closes Base Russian President Vladimir Putin said military officials had decided to close the Lourdes radar station in Cuba, which was set up in the 1970s and costs Russia $200 million a year to maintain. The U.S. welcomed the move, but Cuba said the issue had not yet been resolved. Around 1,500 Russians are based at the center, which houses electronic intelligence equipment and provides Russia with 75% of its military and strategic information about...
...lavish lifestyle associated with Harvard rarely includes financial aid. To a subset of wealthy students, Harvard’s estimated $37,750 cost for the 2002-2003 year has never been on their radar. Meredith E. James ’04, whose father is a New York City investment banker, is reflective of this population. “My family is comfortable. There is no reason we should apply for aid when we can afford school already...