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...area, allows anyone to connect to the Internet through wi-fi transmitters powered by solar panels on nearby rooftops. The panels collect the sun's rays even on cloudy days and hook up to batteries that store 72 hours' worth of power, ensuring a steady supply. "It was a snap to hook up--no wires, no drilling," says Gerard Cote, spokesman for Downtown Boulder Inc., the business group that footed the bill. The cost was half the competing bid for a conventional wireless system...
...like a bad dream—take, for instance, Glenn Dorris’ fumble on a kickoff return to give Princeton the ball on the Harvard 33-yard-line. But this wasn’t a bad dream, at least one from which the Crimson could wake up and snap out of. This was a loss that should never have been. —Staff writer Samuel C. Scott can be reached at sscott@fas.harvard.edu...
...seems as though TIME is being converted into a religious-studies magazine, as an increasing number of cover articles have appeared lately on the topics of God, Jesus and other aspects of religion. Snap out of it! STEVEN ONLEY Bexley, Australia...
...album is packed with flashy, infectious tracks. Each song crackles with energy, underscored by Gab’s distinctly dense machine-gun flow. But there is something lacking; an album, especially today, can’t get by on sonic perfection alone. Well-produced albums abound, bedroom productions snap with digital precision, and even “mix-tapes” (now almost exclusively on CD) don’t have that basement low-fi growl anymore. The talent honed in dozens of dimly-lit teenage bedrooms is spilling out into independent labels, with amateur recordings that have all polish...
...sorry I feel for Brian J. Rosenberg. Poor Brian is faced every day with swarms of “‘I-love-Boston’-sweatshirt-wearing, stupidly-grinning visitors from Podunk,” he writes. He is forced to step around them while they snap pictures of John Harvard. Once in a while, he is even reduced to interacting with these people...