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Sonos is one of those rare high-end home entertainment products that anybody can set up. Plug it in, follow simple instructions, and music players throughout the house link together wirelessly and pull music from the PC. Its only problem, as I pointed out when it launched, is that it can't play the music that I'm constantly buying from Apple's iTunes Store. Today, Sonos became even simpler, and pretty much solved that music problem in the process...
...group is intently focused not on the physical layout of Kampusch's captivity but on the mental landscape of a girl who grew up thinking her parents had abandoned her--counselors who work with children of divorced couples. Long-term abductions by strangers are thankfully rare, but psychologists say the trauma of Kampusch, 18, who was told for years that her parents had simply forgotten about her, echoes the fallout from the more common nightmare of a custody dispute in which a child is irrevocably poisoned against one parent. However composed she appears now, they warn, Kampusch has a long...
...visiting professor Emma Rothschild, Richard Tuck, and Sugata Bose. But heed the word on the street that this class should be avoided—the three professors do little to coordinate their lectures, and topics that one would expect the class to focus on (the American Revolution, perhaps?) rarely come up.Fudging the “completed historical event” label is Historical Studies B-49, “History of American Capitalism,” which will be taught by Professor Sven Beckert, a nineteenth century Americanist with a predilection for nakedly Marxist historiography. Keep a lookout...
...about being pre-med, do yourself a favor and decide before taking “orgo.” Otherwise, when you later switch to Economics, it will count as an elective. Assuming you still think you’re a pre-med, or you are one of those rare types who take orgo out of “interest,” it’s time to pick your poison: 17/27 or 20/30? Chemistry 17/27 is the typical pre-med track, usually taken sophomore year. Chem 17 is a crash course on, well, everything. Fortunately, Professor Jacobsen...
...visit to his native region. The German pontiff stuck to his itinerary and prepared texts, staying mum on Islamic terrorism even as the fifth anniversary of 9/11 dominated headlines and discussions around the world. Aides said Benedict prayed privately for the victims of the attacks, noting that it is rare for popes to speak out on foreign trips about news events not related to the country being visited. But some reporters grumbled unfavorable comparisons with the shy German pontiff?s news-generating, geopolitically attuned predecessor...