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...Nobody - not even Jobs, by his own admission - is sure what consumers will use the iPad for, but I'm guessing it will be the first true home computer. Conventional PCs live in studies; laptops make brief, furtive forays into the living room. The iPad will become the first whole-house computer, shared among an entire family, passed from hand to hand, roaming freely from living room to kitchen to bedroom to - look, it's going to happen - bathroom, at ease everywhere, tethered to nothing. It's not a revolution, but it's a real change, the kind of change...
...suggest there's a bit more to it than that; surely Apple stands at the intersection of liberal arts, technology and commerce? "Sure, what we do has to make commercial sense," Jobs concedes, "but it's never the starting point. We start with the product and the user experience. You seen an iBook yet?" His pleasure in showing me the Winnie the Pooh iBook bundled with every iPad is unaffected and engaging. He demonstrates how the case can be used as a lectern and as a stand. "I think the experience of using an iPad is going to be profound...
...Grant, sleeping in a country home 45 miles (about 70 km) away, awoke to the walls of her room shaking. "Things were falling down, cracking. Everything was rattling," she recalls. The next day, her adviser, a professor of biology at Oxford University named Tim Halliday, e-mailed to make sure she hadn't been hurt. "I wrote to him, 'I'm O.K., but the toads are gone,' " she says. "He wrote back, 'This could be interesting. Why don't we look at it further?' " (See pictures of the L'Aquila earthquake...
...active scholar” and should not therefore be affiliated with Harvard at all. That is an appropriate question for vetting, and as Director of the Weatherhead Center (currently on sabbatical), I can assure you, I will redouble my efforts to make sure our visiting scholars really are scholarly...
...goal is to engage in dialogues with [the speakers] to make them sure of what Afghan thinking really is,” says Shajjan, emphasizing the mutual exchange of ideas between the students and their guests...