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...typing table and a writing desk, the former shorter than the latter so that typing didn t involve the praying mantis posture that Harvard desks necessitate. The Sisyphean struggle of the scrivener Nipper in Herman Melville s "Bartleby the Scrivener"-first tilting his writing table to angle of the "steep roof of a Dutch house" to ease his back, then lowering the table "to his waistbands" and stooping over when it stopped the circulation in his arms, then again tilting the table up-show that the issue of ergonomics in the workplace predates even the typewriter...
...eBook's price is still too steep for all but the most motivated readers. Light sleepers and their spouses are certainly in that group. As are people who don't want to lug around a ton of books when they're on the road. The visually impaired especially may appreciate a feature that lets you increase the font size, making eBooks considerably easier on the eyes than the average paperback. For everyone else, though, I'd say stick with paper--at least...
...standby, tiramisu. Creme caramel is almost, but not quite, too sweet, bathed in a delicate sauce of caramelized sugar. Tiramisu is traditional, favoring the rum-soaked ladyfingers over the sometimes overbearing mascarpone cream. Dinner for two, including wine, appetizers, entrees and dessert, rings in at a steep $45-50 per person, though, so Trattoria Pulcinella is best frequented for a special occasion. 147 HURON...
...nowhere, on the suddenly reappearing Medford-Somerville line, soared Medford's answer to Somerville's fabled mounts. I took a long, steep flight of stairs up onto the campus of Tufts, a sort of would-be Harvard on a hill. There was a large brass elephant in the middle of the university's Yard-ette. Traipsing down to the library, I walked out on to the roof--it was built into the side of the hill and from the perch on the park there I was able to look out over all I had left behind. A satisfying moment...
...steep slopes of central Kosovo, a magenta KIA 4x4 slows to a crawl amid the cheers of running children. Behind the wheel, the rebel Albanian commander known as Celiku, or "Steely," acknowledges their play-soldier salutes, greets several wizened old men and continues up the mountain to his hilltop compound. Sitting on the cushioned floor of his house, sipping thick Turkish coffee, Celiku, a commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army's "general headquarters," says there's only one way to end the war in the secessionist southern Serbian province. "Serbia has to be defeated militarily," he says. "Otherwise they will...