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...have to be living under a rock-or perhaps driving a Ford Pinto-to be unaware that Japanese auto manufacturers have conquered foreign markets. Toyota recently passed GM to become the world's largest carmaker, and even runner-up brands like Honda are in better shape than their struggling American counterparts. But back home, the news isn't so golden. Thanks to an aging, shrinking population and lackluster consumer spending, sales of full-size vehicles in Japan last year were the lowest since 1977. Mighty Toyota may have posted a record global profit of $18.6 billion...
...Newspapers are becoming websites, photos are becoming JPEGs, and songs are becoming MP3s. But what does this great digital awakening mean for the book? To find out, I--as the only person in the U.S. who has never read Khaled Hosseini--downloaded his novel onto a Sony Reader. Kite Runner, meet Blade Runner...
...obsolete. You can use Google Books to retrieve a single valuable snippet of information from a book, but you could never actually read a whole book on a computer screen. The Sony Reader isn't going to displace the humble book anytime soon either. Just to get Kite Runner onto the Reader, I had to charge it, find a computer running Windows XP--we're a Mac shop around here--stare down a cryptic error message and update some software. The half-second delay when you press the turn-the-page button eventually becomes maddening, and you can't scribble...
...senior crew Kristen Lynch assumed sole responsibility of the Crimson’s boat, leading Harvard to a third-place finish with 93 points, behind Brown and Boston College. In B-division, Kovacs was skipper while junior Elyse Dolbec and sophomore shared crew duties. The Crimson finished as the runner-up behind Boston College with 46 points, just four off the winning pace. Johnson echoed the sentiments of Kovacs, calling Saturday’s conditions “perhaps the weirdest sailing conditions ever.” “A guy who’s been coaching...
Kinsey was stranded at third as Madick struck out Khosravi to escape the inning. Penn did have another base runner in the game...