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Still, problems arose in the layering of foreground and background, which at times was dizzying, and the fact that the ball's rapid movements prevented it from ever coming into focus. And there are other hurdles to overcome; the technology requires twice the normal bandwidth of a regular HD broadcast, which satellite and cable carriers aren't likely to offer until there is enough content (now there isn't any), and the NBA will need to plow a lot of money into development if it wants to expand the technology's reach...
...Sciences (FAS) professors pushed back against the committee’s proposal to centralize some science teaching and research across the University. Faust is an observer no more. As Harvard president, she will need to strike a balance between the humanities and the sciences at a time when the rapid expansion of the latter threatens to make the rest of the disciplines feel left behind. “Science absorbs vast amounts of money and space, and the rest of us who sit in our offices and read books think we would like to have a small fraction of that...
...volume of books that are going through the scanning,” said Verba. Google has been scanning Harvard’s books at a secret, undisclosed location for the past two years. According to Verba, the scanning process had “not been at a very rapid pace, the digital facility we had being relatively small.” Once the expanded facility is in place, Verba said, “we are going to do a larger number of books.” As of its announcement last week, Princeton is the 12th institution to join...
...philosophers to tackle the academic riddles of the future. Past presidents, from Lawrence H. Summers to Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, have adopted a confrontational management style, attempting to force through initiatives with a blunt stick. If we, as observers of Harvard University, learned anything from the rapid downfall of former University President Summers, it is that no man—now, no person—can push Harvard in his or her own direction as its leader...
...narrative, Iran is cast as the major regional threat and also, increasingly, as an agent of chaos in Iraq. To help enlist the cooperation of the "responsible" Sunni Arab autocracies, the Bush Administration will also seek to restore its bona fides in the Arab world by promoting a rapid resumption of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process...