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...They can chew through almost anything,” Packer says. “That’s why plastic rodent-proof containers are now standard at dining hall storerooms...
...most notorious human-rights abuser on the planet.” The five individuals who had signed up for a look inside North Korea were informed of the cancellation last Thursday, and all five have enrolled with Princeton University’s alumni trip to North Korea. Cancellations are standard, according to Sarah J. Friedell, director of media relations for the University’s Alumni Affairs and Development. “We run about 75 trips a year through HAA, and it’s not uncommon to cancel 10 or 12 of those each year...
...play video games not play them?" Iwata has been asking himself, and his employees, that question for the past five years. And what Iwata has noticed is something that most gamers have long ago forgotten: to nongamers, video games are really hard. Like hard as in homework. The standard video-game controller is a kind of Siamese-twin affair, two joysticks fused together and studded with buttons, two triggers and a four-way toggle switch called a d-pad. In a game like Halo, players have to manipulate both joysticks simultaneously while working both triggers and pounding half a dozen...
...widest seat pitch in any economy class and a 30% increase in space between seats (achieved by removing nearly 30 seats from the A320's standard 170-seat configuration) add to the comfort?and when not in use, the middle seat in each row converts into a table. At the moment, the fledgling airline only makes the hour-and-a-half-long trip to Tokyo's domestic Haneda Airport from its home base in the western port city of Kitakyushu, but look out in future for routes to Shanghai and Seoul...
...editors: Re: “One Week Later,” comment, April 28: Why the big fuss? Kaavya Viswanathan’s plagiarism was no more than a case of standard ghost writing, the legitimacy of which has been so perfectly “internalized” by the “intelligentsia” in the country of her origin. It is not at all rare in India for parents to do school work of their children. When the project is found to be beyond their caliber, they resort to engaging professionals for the purpose, and any number...