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Please Help Yourself As the U.S. economy closes in on a possible recession, the end of customer service - one of the 10 ideas you said are changing the world - will only help it slide into one [March 24]. While shopping might become quicker and more convenient, what about the jobs that will be lost? Companies will make more money without needing to pay as many employees, but will that really make the world better? I'm no economist, but I feel it will just make the rich richer. Jeff Richmond, Monrovia, Maryland...
...conditions. But sport at the highest level is about separating the great from the really good, and some engineering advances have muddied the process. Part of all cars' armory from 2002-'07 was traction control, an electronic aid that kicks in when the rear wheels begin to spin or slide. Say you're driving through a tight corner in the rain. At the midway point you floor the accelerator. Because an F1 car is both ultra-light and ultra-powerful, your action would surely cause the rear wheels to spin and the car to slide out of control...
That's quite an understatement for an already hyper-competitive market with tens of millions of users. Rivals Flickr, Slide, Picasa and Photobucket all offer some of the same features as the new Photoshop Express. Still, Adobe is wise to tap into Web users' growing appetite for simple programs they don't have to buy - unlike Microsoft, which is so far missing out on the free software wave by failing to offer webware similar to Google Docs or Zoho...
...battle seem weakest and bloodied, as both Hillary Clinton and Obama do now. It's the moment when pundits demand action-"Drop out, Hillary!"-and propound foolish theories. And so I'm rather embarrassed to admit that I'm slouching toward, well, a theory: if this race continues to slide downhill, the answer to the Democratic Party's dilemma may turn out to be Al Gore...
Chalking up another loss, the Harvard men’s volleyball team (7-9) continued its downward slide against neighborhood rival MIT (22-10), falling 1-3 (30-22, 26-30, 28-30, 27-30) in Cambridge, Mass. last night. The Crimson’s losing streak is now at four games...