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Microsoft and Netscape continue to fight a jihad,with each side making their browser products more powerful and feature-laden. Today's browsers do far more than surf the Web; they contain integrated e-mail and news clients, push technologies like Active Desktop and Netcaster and include real-time audio conferencing capabilities...
...home or canoe, Hawaiians traditionally took time to honor their many Gods and to share their bounty with friends and family. So, in the spirit of luaus past, the Hawaiian community on the east coast converged, donning their best aloha attire (mo'u mo'u's, floral shirts, surf shorts) to leave behind mid-term studies and celebrate Hawaii's unique culture. Most of the students came from MIT, but the luau also lured students from Dartmouth, Princeton, Harvard, and Wellesley. "To us this luau is not just a dinner or a show, but rather a piece of our homeland...
While the lucky among us were enjoying sun, sand, surf or maybe just the warm familiarity of home cooking and limitless sleep last week, dozens of dedicated students remained here on a near-deserted campus. Athletes with continuing practices, seniors rushing to finish their theses, and others on campus for extracurriculars or just to catch up on work were left with the College in near shut-down mode. While we realize it was vacation time, Harvard should respect its ever toiling students by preserving at least the most bare of living essentials. Below, a brief checklist to make those sitting...
Education and tips for prevention are available from a number of sources at Harvard. Harvard RSI Action is a support group for people with RSI organized and run by students at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Have someone surf their web site for you at www.eecs.harvard.edu/rsi/. The page features tips on hand and arm stretches, varieties of ergonomic computer equipment and other resources. The Center for Wellness and Health Communication at University Health Services (UHS) offers physical and massage therapy for RSI sufferers as well as useful guides to proper work-station set-up and hand stretching...
...desert with the help of an antenna strung from a cactus, a short-wave radio and a portable fax machine. In 1985 he helped set up Surfline, a Huntington Beach, Calif., firm that distributes daily wave forecasts at a charge of $1.50 to those who call its 900-976-SURF hot line. So accurate are Collins' forecasts that two years ago, bodyboarding champ Mike Stewart used them to surf waves spawned by a single storm across a distance of 7,000 miles, from Tahiti to Alaska...