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...royalties that journals collect. Journals are not all costs however, and one negative of avoiding scholarly journals is the loss of the peer-review process. Yet programs like this one are an important way of providing access to information at no cost. Regardless of method, universities have to strike a balance between these two responsibilities—student costs and intellectual property. Harvard is fortunate enough to provide its students with JSTOR and other expensive and all-encompassing online access programs, but all schools should work within their financial means to provide the most comprehensive access for their students...
...university campuses and the Farsi-language blogosphere, Iranians are following the American presidential race more avidly than ever before. That's partly because they're eager for the exit of President Bush, who branded Iran part of an "Axis of Evil" and implicitly raised the possibility of a military strike against the country over its alleged nuclear weapons program. But the Iranians' interest is also driven by a sense among many Iranians that the candidacy of Barack Obama offers real hope for repairing the U.S.-Iranian relationship. Commenting on the Iranian preference for a Democrat in the White House, Sergei...
...Internet. In the business of moving video data onto small plastic boxes, the Internet used to be a footnote--it was choppy and low res, legally sketchy and financially pointless. Now, in the post-YouTube era, the Web is infested with video. That's what that Hollywood writers' strike was about. Some people think the whole Net will have to be re-engineered to cope with all the video flowing through it. But is it enough? Should you go TV-free...
...government of President Cristina Fernandez blamed farmers for the increasingly unbreathable air. It continues to be on the political offensive against the private agricultural sector following a major farm strike against export taxes earlier this month. "This is the largest fire of this kind we've ever seen," said Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo in an emergency press conference at the Casa Rosada presidential palace. "It was started by farmers clearing land for cattle grazing driven by greed for profit with total disregard for human life." The President was just as harsh. "This is not a natural disaster, this...
...thought Stoeckel had a chance—he’s the one guy who’s going to know that play,” coach Joe Walsh said of his sure-handed shortstop. “I thought he’d come up, throw a strike home, and we’d still be playing. But it’s about making plays, and we didn’t make enough of them.”For the second time in the game, Walsh made the decision to intentionally walk Huskies leadoff man Mike Tamsin to face...