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...quest for perfect information, the most important and most often asked question is how trustworthy are user reviews? A quick scan of reviews on various sites reveals that the majority of entries appear to be honest and insightful critiques, while others seem misguided and, in the worst case, appear to be textual vendettas or shill assessments posted by biased reviewers. But as is the case with any information posted with anonymity, veracity and the risk of misinformation are always in question. Caveat emptor rules apply...
...quick scan of the Bulldogs (in light of this mess, maybe Poodles is more apt) roster reveals 15 pitchers. Further study of the team’s statistics page elucidates that 14 different throwers have seen game action for Yale this season and eight of those have started a game. If suddenly you can’t find six kids on your bench worthy of starting an Ivy tilt on the hill, it shouldn’t be up to the Ivy League office to accommodate your short-handed staff (current...
...clicks in HOLLIS may now save you a trip to Widener Library, as tens of thousands of scanned books become electronically available through Harvard’s library catalog in the next few weeks. Eventually, all of the University’s library books digitized as part of the Google Books Library Project will be made directly accessible through links in the online HOLLIS system. For instance, a student looking for the 1850 book “Antitrinitarian Biography” by Robert Wallace, a three-volume tome on Unitarianism, can get to it simply by clicking...
...American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) disagrees. The ACLU has wasted little time in rallying its lawyers to persuade Congress to ban the use of such technology for routine security screening. Because X-rays pass through clothing, an ACLU officer, quoted in the New York Times, dubbed the scan a “virtual strip search,” claiming that the additional security of the scan is not worth the loss of passenger privacy...
Fortunately though, this is not the case. Although X-rays are never good for you, the machine uses only 10 microRem of X-rays per scan, an extremely low dosage level that some experts deem inconsequential, even for pregnant women. In fact, according to the machine’s manufacturer, a single scan constitutes the same amount of radiation exposure that passengers receive for every two minutes spent in the air. In other words, getting scanned is roughly the equivalent of spending a couple of minutes extra on your next flight...