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...what specifically characterizes the transition to Harvard (other than the shock of street music versus lowing cows, and riding the T in lieu of tractors)? According to transfers, it is a movement marked by a sense of loss of a community, social alienation, and anonymity—no surprise for students leaving a close-knit school of 25 students...
American Christmas shoppers in Paris aren't the only ones suffering from sticker shock. The dollar fell to a near-record low of $1.33 to the euro at the end of last week. It has shed about six cents since early November, shattering months of calm on currency markets, causing a mini-swoon on some stock exchanges and prompting French Finance Minister Thierry Breton to call for "great collective vigilance." The dollar has also slid against the British pound, which closed last week just a few cents short of $2, its highest in 14 years. Many investors are betting that...
MicroOptical has begun selling a model that connects to a video iPod for $299. The challenge is to avoid the Segway scooter's problems: sticker shock and nerdiness. "We have to overcome the geek factor," admits Kokinakis, "so we have more of an Oakley look than Star Trek...
...four years. This is usually greeted with some mixture of horror and pity. The same goes for their reactions to my explanation that I pay a solid annual board fee and therefore am guaranteed three meals a day in my dining hall. My friends don a uniform expression of shock and issue a similar: “Doesn’t that suck...
Russians learned Thursday that former prime minister Yegor Gaidar, the mastermind of Russia's early 1990s "shock therapy" economic reform, was poisoned last Friday in Dublin. Irish doctors managed to save Gaidar from what he now calls "a threat to my life." The doctors appear to have established that the affliction that caused Gaidar's nosebleeds and violent vomiting was no routine case of food poisoning, and are waiting for the results of forensic tests to determine the cause of an illness for which they could find no conventional explanation. Even President Vladimir Putin called to offer Gaidar his sympathies...