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...excess. Although the facility can accommodate 75 flights an hour, at times there are more than 100 planes scheduled. Since airlines evidently cannot restrain themselves from overscheduling, demand could be rationed by the size of the fee that an airline pays an airport for each takeoff or landing. A slot at 5 p.m. at O'Hare should cost more than...
...covered G4 PowerBook, which Jobs left for his now traditional "one more thing" finale. This is pretty much what Mac lovers like myself have been fantasizing about for a long time: it's 1 in. thick and weighs less than 5 lbs., with a gorgeous 15-in. screen and slot-loading DVD drive. No Windows laptop offers all those features combined. After years of lugging clunky old PowerBooks onto planes and casting jealous glances at the guy with the 1.3-in.-slim Sony Vaio across the aisle, I'm looking forward to making the Vaio guy lust for my svelte...
Same goes for the new high-end G4 desktops Jobs also unveiled last week. They will contain what Apple has unimaginatively dubbed a SuperDrive. This is another industry first: a combined DVD-R (for recordable) and CD-RW (for rewritable) slot. What that means is, you will be able to record 60 minutes' worth of your own digital home movies and slide shows onto a disc that will play in any DVD machine (or 74 minutes' worth of digital music that will play on any CD machine). There's even a free piece of software called iDVD to help...
Last spring, six students calling themselves the "Steering Committee on Dance," wrote a 70-page report with the help of College officials, which they submitted to Brustein, Robert J. Orchard, the managing director of the Loeb and ART, and other Harvard administrators. The report asked an additional slot on the Loeb Mainstage be allocated for an undergraduate dance show...
...refused to grant the dancers an extra slot on the Mainstage. Undergraduates still stage just four shows a year in the largest dramatic theater space at Harvard...