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...love laptops. I never stray too far without mine, an HP Pavilion dv1000. I bring up my bias because, for $350, the Nokia 770 will do almost everything you'd want a laptop to do-download music, browe the web, send e-mail and much more. And at just over 8 ounces, it's a lot easier to carry around...
...Officers responded to Dillon Field House at 47 North Harvard St. because of a report concerning a theft still in progress. The reporting party informed police that the suspect fled in an unknown direction but had left some items behind. Police impounded the stray items, worth $2,000, left behind by the thief...
BEETLES, DRAGONFLIES and even a stray butterfly or two are creeping into the home-décor market, shooing away the graphic, geometric prints that have for so long dominated the scene. Mother Nature now alights on everything from John Derian découpage platters to branch-shaped candle holders by Michael Aram. Even Van Cleef & Arpels is escaping to the garden with a dazzling dragonfly clip. ?By Betsy Kroll
...Gwang Ki kneels in the yellow stubble of his newly harvested rice field and lovingly picks up a stray stalk of rice. Every day since he was a young boy, Yuk, now 53, has come to this paddy in Jangsu province, South Korea, to plant, to tend the fragile seedlings and to bring in the crops. Yuk's family has tilled this tiny plot for 400 years, and while it's increasingly difficult to earn a living from the land, Yuk would be happy knowing his family could go on with the work for 400 more. "The purpose of farming...
...understanding that they will limit themselves to these circumscribed forms of advocacy, and that they will not dabble in bigger, more divisive issues, as they did this week.None of this is to say that there should not be a representative body responsible for discussing the sort of issues that stray sufficiently from the beaten path of present UC politics to provoke controversy and complaint. But, to prevent the confused outcry we saw this week, that body should be elected separately from the organization that plans and pays for campus events.By reconstituting the UC as two separate and independent bodies...