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...move MP3s to the handset, you need a MiniSD card. A new kind of memory chip for small devices like phones, it's compatible with standard SD. Since it generally ships with an SD adapter, it will fit into any SD card slot you might have on your computer or printer. (If you don't have one, you can get a USB card reader for around $20.) In goes the card, and an icon pops up, under My Computer in Windows or right on the desktop in a Mac. Drag songs you want to hear to the icon, then slip...
Thank you for raising the issue of global warming as it relates to hurricanes [Oct. 3]. The debate seems to focus on whether we have enough evidence that pollution is causing climate change to justify taking steps to reduce greenhouse gases. That standard is too high when the world is facing what might be catastrophic consequences. Even the possibility that human behavior is changing our climate should compel action. American attitudes toward environmental pollution are like our attitudes toward food: we keep shoving pollutants into the atmosphere with the same abandon that we shove junk food into our mouths, even...
Still, Harvard never adopted a living wage standard, though student support helped janitors and dining hall workers get a serious raise that year and the committee appointed to study the question recommended “compensation levels that significantly contribute to ensuring that Harvard’s workers and their families enjoy at least a minimally decent standard of living...
Over the past four years, the wages of Harvard janitors and other low paid employees have fallen further and further short of that “minimally decent standard,” as the cost of living in Boston has shot up and the university’s endowment has exploded...
...reasonable studies of life in the Boston area now call for a living wage of $20 or more plus benefits. The Massachusetts Family Self-Sufficiency Standard is $20.85 for a parent with one child. The National Low-Income Housing Commission estimates $24.35 as the bare minimum. And the Economic Policy Institute says $28.03 is needed for a parent with two kids...