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...rooms to study, the bells only remind us of how little we are getting done. Time chimes by all too loudly as we check our email, munch on popcorn and surf the day away online. They're not loud enough to distract us totally--in fact, their harmonious scale is a vast improvement over the atonal Lowell House bells on Sunday afternoons. Nevertheless, we now find ourselves with a new procrastination excuse: searching for the as-yet-unseen bells can be a welcome alternative to finishing that problem...
...reaches an unbelievable point when we are forced to watch Forster's bondsman go to a record store, browse among tapes, and finally buy, quite clearly, a Delfonics hit. The merchandisers of old chestnut love songs must be rejoicing with a future return more guaranteed than the suddenly fortunate surf bands who saw new sales with Pulp Fiction's skittering guitar soundtrack...
...have the time to watch or the money to pay for cable. Moreover, chances are that if all the dorms are wired for cable, those installation costs will magically appear on our term-bills--meaning you will end up paying for cable even if you'd rather surf the Web than surf 100 channels. You call that something all students want? I call it a marginal quality-of-life concern. (Not to mention the fact that cable TV is not apolitical. For example, should students have access to adult channels? I can see a Playboy Coalition forming...
...incentives and private investment, technologies that use synthetic materials, advanced electronics and biotechnology are sweeping through the energy industry. They could foster a new generation of mass-produced machines that efficiently and cleanly provide the energy that enables people to take a hot shower, sip a cold beer or surf the Internet. The transition to a 21st century energy system is gathering speed on at least four fronts...
...dataholic? Some telltale signs: You check your e-mail obsessively from both work and home. You go offline every 10 minutes just in case you have new voice mail. Your palms are sweating right now as you wait for the first link in this story so you can surf off to the next instantaneous information thrill...