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...browsing. But snapping photos with the 640x480-pixel camera and e-mailing them to friends was a lot of fun. An ample 12 MB of internal memory plus 16 MB on the Memory Stick Duo card--together, enough to store hundreds of snapshots--are included in the $649 retail price...
...Harvard needs another Carpenter Center, a building that will get people to think and talk about the meaning of architecture, whether they like the design of the building or not. For local residents, the design of the building is less important than public use of the ground floor though retail space, and Harvard would be wrong to ignore them...
...regulatory boards will likely find the design of the new building to be appropriate for the site; the biggest question at the moment is what will happen on the first floor. Local residents like G. Pebble Gifford, former president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, would like to see retail space remain there. Harvard would like to use the entire first floor for its employees, since the building is not very large to begin with (four small stories above grade, one below). Harvard’s current plan to placate dissenters is a gallery (possibly containing rare books from...
...However, local residents need to accept the fact that by asking for a building with less bulk, they are making it hard for Harvard to have much flexibility in the first floor program. My suggestion would be a “false front” solution. Instead of a retail store like the Pro, which requires a lot of floor space, the building should incorporate a take-out restaurant, like the Wrap (which, by the way, will be forced out of its current space in October). If supplies were stored in the basement, a restaurant like the Wrap could...
...Homeland Insecurity The U.S. economy has bunkered down, with retail sales falling 1.6% last month and payrolls plunging 308,000 - the most since the Sept. 11 attacks...