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...loony Canada became in 2007. Above all, it was a year of unpredictability. In October border waits were up to three and a half hours long. In Canada, there were reports of angry customers throwing books at store clerks, enraged by the stickers printed up months in advance that forced Canadians to pay up to 30% more than Americans for the same goods. On Nov. 7, the day the loonie reached $1.10 U.S., the currency's value swerved and swung over a three-cent range in a single day - a difference that for the Blue Jays, at least, means most...
...Someone like Peter Payack, who sort of thinks beyond the convention with very creative ideas of presenting poetry, I think is a kind of person who serves this kind of role very well,” said Daniel J. Wuenschel, manager of Grolier Poetry Book Shop, a local store...
...Although choosing local strawberries or pears at college is not quite as simple as it is at home, where you can buy food at your local grocery store, students still have the power to affect gastronomic change at Harvard. HUDS chooses our breakfasts, lunches, and dinners for us, trying to satisfy a wide diversity of tastes on campus. This does not mean, though, that we should sit complacently as the dining hall staff fills our trays with food from California or Mexico. HUDS values the desires of the student body as a whole, inviting undergraduates to “offer...
...Amazon store—which is, of course, the only practical way to read full books at all on the device—come crippled with DRM (Digital Rights Management Software). This is the same type of software that is included on most tracks purchased through the iTunes Music Store. This is “copy protection” software, and he notes that it can complicate the loading and unloading of books from the Kindle. But two bigger problems with DRM aren’t mentioned: First, it ties the purchased content forever to the device which...
...many will find themselves repurchasing music because it is unnecessarily incompatible with newer digital audio players. This situation actually happens all the time, and it’s not just fly-by-night retailers going out of business; in the past year Major League Baseball and the Google Video Store have both discontinued their proprietary DRM video services, leaving paying customers high-and-dry with useless video files. Consumers rejected a move several years ago to include DRM on music CDs; will we accept these restrictions on our entire library of books...