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...chips, one for mobile-telephone service and one from Visa that adds a nifty credit-card function to the handset. The Visa chip will allow a customer to hold the phone near a cash register and push a button to pay a bill rather than having a clerk swipe a credit card. The digital mobile phone can replace the customer's signature as well...
...find just about any book that a Harvard student might have a wet dream about reading (save “Threads of Passion”). Fortunately for the library creepsters, to get to some of our 90-plus libraries, you don’t even have to swipe in. You just flash a random card at a random security guard and walk in. In the Cabot Science Library, I like to use my library card from home. It’s blue. The Quad Library sometimes props the door open to get a nice breeze going. Admittedly, the non-ghetto...
...Long Shot Candidate Hunting season is open on Mike Huckabee In the bizzaro universe of presidentialpolitics, it was something of a compliment when former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney made a seemingly casual swipe at a back-of-the-pack rival during a recent Iowa television interview. Mike Huckabee, he declared, had supported "special tuition breaks to the children of illegal immigrants...
...much easier for people anywhere in the world to get access to the material. I think that means we’re beginning to see signs that it’s being used a lot more extensively.”You may need a Harvard ID to swipe into Widener, but anyone can access the collections online. “It’s not just open collections or open access as it goes according to the current formulas, but openness in general so that Harvard, which has these great intellectual riches, can share the wealth with the rest...
...Helena, poverty isn’t escapable by the quick swipe of a Charlie Card. The divide here could more aptly be called an “Achievement Abyss”: it’s really deep, and there is no foreseeable edge. Unlike its urban counterpart, rural poverty does not see six-figure salaries every day on the subway. It does not understand how education is a means to success because it sees neither. It does not perceive its own strangeness because it so rarely travels away from the abandoned storefronts and dilapidated streets of Helena...