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What happened to the PC? It has turned out to be too much like a car. Once a household has two or three of something, no matter how useful it is, sales of that item are going to slow down. The PC is no exception. IBM (IBM) brought its PC to market in 1981 and launched the age of personal computing. The first machine went for $1,565, so for all the processing power that new machines have, pricing has not changed much...
...first clue came when I got my hair cut. The stylist offered not just the usual coffee or tea but a complimentary nail-polish change while I waited for my hair to dry. Maybe she hoped this little amenity would slow the growing inclination of women to stretch each haircut to last four months while nursing our hair back to whatever natural color we long ago forgot...
...need to attack a give-and-go and get a 2-on-1 situation. We really didn’t do that, we kept our heads down and shot the puck.” New Hampshire got on the board at 17:28 in the first on a slow-motion 2-on-1 breakaway. After taking a pass from Courtney Sheary, Wildcat Shannon Sisk sped up the left side of the ice. Though Crimson senior Nora Sluzas got between the two UNH skaters, Sisk found a charging Julie Allen, who powered the puck past Harvard junior goaltender Christina Kessler. Three...
University President Drew G. Faust announced Wednesday afternoon that Harvard will slow construction on the Allston Science Complex for the rest of 2009, as the University reassesses its financial situation after an unprecedented decline in its endowment. The news follows months of warnings that the economic downturn could delay Harvard’s ambitious plans for a new campus across the river. Harvard has heralded the Science Complex as a core part of its plans. According to Faust’s statement, the Science Complex’s foundation will be completed and brought to ground level at a slower...
...many of her generation, Klang Sokhan lost numerous relatives during the regime that ruled Cambodian from 1975 to 1979, when an estimated 1.7 million people died, including her son and daughter who were 5 and 4 when they succumbed to starvation. For Klang Sokhan, the complexities and the slow pace of the U.N.-backed tribunal proceedings do not assuage her anger - or her thirst for revenge. "The court is difficult to understand. It's too complicated. What people want is for them to die," she said of Duch and the four other Khmer Rouge leaders now in detention...