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...student friendly and technologically feasible, professors should also pursue “e-textbooks.” Class readings stored on CDs or posted on the Internet are much easier for students to share and would come with far lower costs than coursepacks. The Harvard libraries already scan some course texts into e-reserves—a welcome cost-saving measure for students...
Where the 4670 stumbles is with the included software. The image-editing tools, used to touch up pictures once you have scanned them, can be complicated. The Instant Share feature, which lets you scan and e-mail pictures on the fly, doesn't allow you to crop pictures before you send them. And the Panorama Maker program, which is supposed to let you scan segments of large things like maps and posters and then "stitch" the images back into a coherent whole, doesn't always reassemble the images quite right...
...every 800 children born in the U.S. Until now, the genetic disorder could not be detected prenatally until the second trimester. That may change. A new test, still in the early stages of study, can detect it in the first trimester, using the mother's blood and an ultrasound scan of the fetus...
...openers, Toshiba this month ships the SD-H400 ($549.99), a progressive-scan DVD player with built-in 80-hour TiVo. Instead of buying two devices, you get two in one. Or you might wait for Pioneer to roll out the first DVD recorder and TiVo combination (DVR-810H, $1,199). The benefit here is that you can greatly expand your memory capacity by burning programs onto DVDs, and make your shows portable--without using VCR Plus+ codes...
...have to be the first one on line. I scan the airport suspiciously and listen hard for Hebrew. I try not to remember the sound of my grandmother’s voice when she’d call us just because, randomly asking me if I’d heard of this Brazilian writer or that German family drama, and remembering every detail I’d ever told her about my life...