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Students and members of the Harvard community should pay close attention this week to an election that will have wide-ranging consequences worldwide--and it isn't the U.S. presidency. Instead, a select body of voters will have the chance to correct a serious problem affecting the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Haven't heard of it? That's the problem...
...discovery of new diamond reserves and the emergence of upstart producers determined to peddle their goods outside the cartel. De Beers now controls just 60% of the $7 billion market. This summer in London, De Beers all but acknowledged the end of its dominance; the company told its select group of 125 clients that it would no longer be the diamond producers' "buyer of last resort" and would begin to unload its $4 billion stockpile of surplus gems...
...tight-lipped Porcellian Club, and notoriously secretive author Thomas Pynchon. (The organization claims that Tyrone Slothrop, a fictional Harvard graduate in Pynchon's Gravity Rainbow, was a Lampoon editor.) The Lampoon really, really wants secrecy to be the organization's hallmark. Only invited seniors, enterprising Crimson editors and the select few undergraduates who pass the Lampoon's rigorous comp have ever seen the castle's upstairs sanctum...
...library we teach very young children to try to read a page in their selected material. If they cannot read and understand five words in the first paragraph, the book is probably too hard for them to read by themselves. In this way, children will grow up to be discriminating adult readers. I remember my own daughter, who at the age of eight had already created several criteria to help her select recreational reading materials. She would not read any book in which the main character was older than she was at the time - actually, not a bad beginning criterion...
...terms of benefits to flyers, the Internet is revolutionizing the way we travel just as radically as deregulation itself. The creation of several self-service on-line travel agencies has given consumers a tremendous new power to search for low fares and select different types of airline flights. And the success of two of the more established on-line travel sites, travelocity.com and expedia.com, has further paved the way for myriad other websites that allow users to search for low plane fares in any number of ways. Sites such as priceline.com even allow consumers to bid for surplus seats, while...