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...blame Apple for not wanting to use anything that comes out of Microsoft, but you still might find another of their practices unsavory: the reason none of the other mp3 players or music stores are compatible with Apple products is that Apple (unlike Microsoft, who in this rare instance are playing the ‘good guys’) refuses to license their FairPlay technology so that others can use it.Apple isn’t alone in pushing closed standards—Microsoft is, for example, guilty as well, with their “.doc” file format...
...like to clarify: I have nothing against tourists, per se. I am frequently a tourist myself in other areas of the world. But it seems that those who visit Harvard view the University’s buildings and grounds as only half the appeal. The other half is that rare animal, scurrying about in its natural habitat: the Harvard student. Enough is enough. I’m fed up with nearly getting run over by a tour bus every time I try to cross Mass. Ave. in the morning as it attempts to parallel park in a space that...
...works out daily, walking nearly everywhere with more than 20 kg of weight strapped to his back and ankles?even if he's coming home from a drinking party in Ginza. "It's good exercise, and I get sober," he says. Miura's enthusiasm for vigorous activity isn't rare among Japanese, who have the longest life spans in the world. Seniors there regularly break records. In 2002, Tamae Watanabe became the oldest woman to scale Everest, at 63, and 71-year-old Minoru Saito recently became the oldest person to sail solo around the world without stopping. "I thought...
...mace. Since 2003, more than 100 people have become sick enough to come to the attention of health authorities, and at least 60 of them have died. So far, the vast majority have been infected through close contact with birds; human-to-human infection is still extremely rare. What gives health authorities nightmares is the possibility that the lethal H5N1 could mutate into a virus that is easily passed among humans...
PHILIP ROTH, 72 A rare literary giant, his work (The Human Stain, The Plot Against America) has got better and more relevant as he has aged...