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Emotional reactions to the current discussions between Harvard and Radcliffe range from ecstatic to fearful. But one thing's for sure--if Radcliffe were to tug on the purse strings of its alumnae post-merger, heartstrings in tune with Radcliffe "College" might snap...
...ready to make such a claim for digital cameras, which were introduced in 1995. But the technology of capturing pictures as computer data is racing ahead as consumers get comfortable with the technology. The latest "megapixel" models, which snap images composed of more than a million dots, or pixels, can produce pictures that rival film prints--provided you've got a computer, a good color printer, some glossy photo paper and the patience to put it all together. You may need a bigger wallet too: the best consumer models still cost...
Until not so long ago, Sinatra's notion of cool was deader than an imploded casino in Vegas. Bourbon on the rocks and snap-brim hats were your parents'--no, worse, your grandparents'--idea of hip, stuff that looked quaint beside the bug-eyed alienation of the 1960s. Hippies wore blissed-out smiles and ponchos. Sinatra wore cuff links, roughly $30,000 worth in the mid-1950s, when that kind of money bought a house or two. In the Oedipal drama of the counterculture, Frank was the daddy-o who must die. He could swing his raincoat over his shoulder...
Recently Weakland has taken time away from work: in 1996 the Juilliard piano graduate toiled on a doctoral dissertation on liturgical chant at Columbia University (leading Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, whose workfare program Weakland had faulted, to snap that the Archbishop should "read his Bible instead of playing piano in New York"). Last year Weakland underwent treatment for prostate cancer. But he is back in combative form, penning a preview of his ad limina thoughts for the Jesuit magazine America. He feels that U.S. Catholicism, 60 million members strong, is in danger of a split. At one extreme, he discerns...
...billion-apiece KH-12 satellites the Pentagon has in orbit are like Hubble space telescopes pointed back to earth. From 164 miles up, their optical sensors can snap clear photographs of objects no larger than a paperback novel on the ground. The two Lacrosse satellites, same price tag, with solar-power panels that stretch the length of half a football field, have radar-imaging cameras that can see through clouds and even the dust storms that swirl around India's Pokhran test site. In a crisis, at least one of the four birds can be positioned over a target...