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...always seem to be suffering a personal energy crisis. I can drain my mobile-phone battery dry in a day, my PDA craves a charge after 48 hours and my notebook computer beeps plaintively during the shortest airplane flight. The situation isn't getting better. Portable devices continue to sprout power-hungry features such as color screens and wireless communications capabilities. Yet the humble, overtaxed battery?without which no device would be portable?is evolving too slowly to keep...
...it’s just a matter of carrying that confidence over to Saturday. The team has been practicing against some of the football players to prepare for UNC’s size and athleticism. The 5’6 Monti, as usual, will be one of the shortest players on the court and will have her work cut out for her trying to keep up with UNC’s quicker guards. But Barnard isn’t worried...
...economy did indeed hold a recession - but hardly anybody came. As more companies emerge with their fourth-quarter numbers from the last three months of 2001 - at least those that haven't delayed their reports to double-check the books - investors appear increasingly convinced not only that the shortest recession in recent memory was also one of the gentlest, but also that the sailing will be smooth all spring...
...undergraduate which class has the shortest straw. The answer is sure to be the sophomores. From at least reasonable dormitories in Harvard Yard, they have been moved into the unwanted rooms of the housing system—reject rooms of the upper-class lotteries. They are struggling with tutorials in the wrong concentrations, cursing the fifth-class demon of seductive overambition, pass-failing, add-dropping, withdrawing in frustration, and abandoning pre-med for The Study of Religion...
...respond to file requests—in such a brief period of time. Much to the dismay of Texas’ state archivist, who has the resources to handle the thousands of pages and has been one of the most vocal opponents of Bush’s scheme, the shortest notice the library can give petitioners is 90 days. And because it is a federal institution, it claims no allegiance to Texas state law. As James Newcomb of the Better Government Association summed up, “Who needs a shredder when you have Daddy’s presidential library...