Word: station
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...three years later, Harvard still owns more than $34 million in Shell stock. Student protests continue today. On Nov. 10 (the anniversary of Mr. Saro-Wiwa's execution), the Environmental Action Committee organized student protests on the steps of Widener and in front of the local Shell station. These were part of an international day of protest against Shell's involvement in Nigeria. Like Mr. Sachs and the 1995 council, we urge Harvard to join us in censure of Shell Oil by fully divesting itself of all Shell stock. BENJAMIN D. TOLCHIN '01, DANIEL M. HENNEFELD '99, DANIELLE C. SCHINDLER...
...late 20th century, it's the media's fault. Each February, a cabal of toy hawkers and toy reporters huddle at Toy Fair in (where else?) New York City. The hawkers try to coax the reporters into naming their toy the "hottest." Virtually every newspaper and TV station runs some version of this hot-new-toy story, which entices visually and appeals to journalism's need to find what's next. This has happened before (more about Cabbage Patch Kids in a minute), but the creation of the Furby--more important, the invention of a Furby craze...
...Lexington Street resident reports that a man from Everett struck him on the head with an object near the kiosk located in front of the Harvard Square T station...
...International Space Station wasn't always so complex a beast. The idea of a permanent U.S. orbital platform was first proposed by Ronald Reagan in his State of the Union address in January 1984. For all the station's great size, Reagan envisioned it as a fairly fat-free piece of engineering: a lean, $8 billion cluster of modules that could be manufactured on the ground, be assembled in space and go into service by 1992. Orbiting Earth 200 miles up, it would serve as a flying laboratory for inventing new materials and conducting pharmaceutical work. More important, it would...
...year from inexpensive, tablet-style devices for surfing the Web and reading e-mail. At this week's Comdex show in Las Vegas, Cyrix is unveiling a prototype of its 2.7-lb. WebPAD with a 10.4-in. color screen and a 200-MHz processor. Wireless technology requires a "base station" or computer to be nearby, and the keyboard is optional, but the chipmaker hopes to entice vendors to sell the device for about $500 by next summer...