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...Chandran was just climbing the steps of the college union when Natesan, the secretary, sprang on him and said, "you are just the person I was looking for. You remember your old promise?" "No," said Chandran promptly, to be on the safe side...
...Just days after PSLM first occupied Mass. Hall, tents sprang up in the Yard in support of a “living wage.” The population of the tent city peaked the first weekend of the protest, then fell as the protest wore on. But, even without occupants, tents kept appearing until the count neared 90 earlier this week...
After the violent protests at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle last winter, a network of activist physicians sprang up across the country. Greger is a member of one of these groups, the Northeast Action Medics Association, which has sent doctors to Philadelphia and Quebec for protests in those cities this year...
...recently had the chance to interview Fisher, who remarked that his concept for the film sprang from his fond childhood remembrances of Boston’s legions of street performers. This long-held fondness, he continued, melded with an intellectual spirit that owed something to his “own love of language and ideas,” yielded a black-and-white film whose ideas and conceits can be surprisingly colorful. Questions about Han Solo, Thundercats and the meaning of life all get equal time at his table, and he’s as at ease wrangling a phone...
Broadband growth figured to be limitless. Given that every business and every household is moving online, data transmission has been expanding at phenomenal rates. But as phone companies and Internet service providers sprang up everywhere, capacity raced light-years ahead of demand. So the price for using the pipes tumbled, hobbling the telcos' ability to expand and to buy more gear. "Never in the history of industry has the sheer number of competitors been so underestimated and misunderstood," says former AT&T Broadband president Leo Hindery. "And never have the implications of technology advancement been so misunderstood as well...