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...this category is the secret upstairs room of the Lowell House library, accessible through a very steep metal stair at the back of the copy room (light switch at the top). The room contains a wonderfully arranged collection of everything from Wittgenstein and the Gitas to early American treatises on expansion, character...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Sense of Place | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...value policy good for a specific amount. That was fine then. I knew what I was paying for the house. But since then I've made improvements and enjoyed appreciation in a hot housing market. I'm no longer sure what my house is worth, so I wanted to switch to a policy guaranteeing full replacement value no matter how mistaken I might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House Guess | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

Rodriguez lent me the thing, which is roughly the size of a paperback novel. It has a short, ugly black antenna that screws on. For power, you can plug it into the wall or use a battery pack. It's simple to operate: you flip a switch, and the appliance does its thing, obliterating cellular transmissions in an area comparable to a medium-size movie theater. That's in cities; out in the country, where the distance between cells is greater, the device can take out one whole floor of a building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cell-Phone Zapper | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...switches allow roaming, but roaming doesn't drive the switch deployments," Davis says...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roaming Alone | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...unfaithful. Throughout U.S. history, only nine electors out of some 18,000 have violated their pledges. It's going to be hard to find one who's going to break his or hers. Frank Straka, a Bush-Cheney elector from Arizona, tells TIME, for example, that he won't switch even if Gore wins the popular vote nationally. "It's like the playoffs," he says. "One team may score more runs, but if they don't win the four games, they lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: College Bound? | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

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