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...even more bewildering to try to figure out the logic that has led people to focus such an obscene amount of attention on these e-mails—there’s a fine line between acknowledging confirmation of widely held thoughts and just being redundant and stale. Perhaps it has just been a particularly uneventful time on campus lately, but is there really nothing else for us to spend our time and energy being concerned about? Isn’t there a huge hurricane ripping through Mexico and the Southeast right now? Aren’t there a whole...
...improved so much," a soldier assures us. That may be true for members of the privileged ? lite, of whom we catch glimpses as they are ferried around town in Mercedeses with tinted windows. But how long will everyone else be willing to put up with rice rations and stale elevator music...
...website of the Undergraduate Council (UC) recently—perhaps hoping to languish away an afternoon filling out grant applications or reading news (“Record Crowd Attends Springfest”) from 2004—understands that it fails miserably at its most rudimentary purpose: functionality. Besides stale grant applications, the site’s voting system has proven difficult to configure in the past, and individuals still have access to the system who have long since departed Sever...
...Goodbye to Stale Wines? One in 10 bottles of wine is tainted?or "corked," in the oenophile's argot?making it smell musty and taste bitter. Now French scientists have come up with a kit called Dream Taste. You dip a copolymer shaped like a bunch of grapes into the wine, where it absorbs the flavor-spoiling molecules...
...airline industry is reaching new lows. These facts taken together are rather disconcerting. With increasing competition from smaller airlines, many large companies are scaling back to save money. The question is, where are they scaling back? Now, we don’t mind missing out on a stale bread roll or two, but if airplane maintenance and thus safety are in any way shortchanged, well, we’re dead...