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...PROS: Microsoft has been losing money in the Internet space and desperately needs the tremendous reach of Yahoo, which is bigger than any other rival. Microsoft could swiftly sweeten its deal for Yahoo, with the extra resources from News Corp. Yahoo will likely enjoy a higher purchase price, which will satisfy its investors. Plus, Microsoft can then integrate Yahoo search and content into News Corp.'s MySpace (which lacks a built-in Internet search feature), making it a more serious threat to Facebook...
...Chan snapped up his A623 in an online auction for just under $150 - underscoring the fact that early communist-era Chinese mechanical watches are within the financial reach of almost anyone. "Even many rare models can still be found for [around] $75," Chan says. To be sure, some pieces occasionally fetch impressive sums (a 1955 Shanghai Watch sold at auction for over $15,700 in 1996), but for the moment no one is talking about the investment value - only the pleasure of getting your hands on a quaint piece of revolutionary history...
...hippie chimps are showing us no love. The jungle is giving us none either, with army ants, sweat bees and black gnats swarming us. But we have traveled hundreds of miles in a rickety propeller plane to reach a grass strip in the heart of the Congo Basin, nursed a wrecked jeep down 100 miles (160 km) of bicycle track and hacked all morning through vines and thorns on the promise that the peaceniks of the animal kingdom would show us what they're about. So far, there's been some rustling in the trees, a few shrieks...
...know you as a pioneer from when I took your computer-science class in college. What milestones in virtual reality do you want those who follow in your footsteps to reach? -Mathew Morton, BostonVirtual reality thus far has focused on bizarre, interesting perceptual thrills. I'd like to see them move on and try to really tell interactive stories. How do you put the user in control? It's a nuanced problem that's going to take a lot of smart people working for a long, long time...
...century history of the Faculty: a failure to achieve quorum in a vote on quorum. Chair of the Economics Department James H. Stock presented yesterday’s legislation, which, in addition to lowering the quorum threshold, would have provided new regulations for clarifying whether a quorum has been reached before business is considered. Currently, members of the Faculty have to call for a quorum count. “Right now you may guess that we have a quorum, but you won’t know,” Stock said. “Secretary [of the Faculty Noel] Bisson...