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...cost-of-living salary raise virtually automatic at Harvard. After Gavin initiated grievance procedures, the raise was finally granted. But the procedures revealed that Stager had done what we're all told as children not to do: He read other people's mail, filched files, and disassembled hi-tech machinery to get evidence against Gavin...
...specialized mobile radio, as it is known, has been rediscovered. It is now considered one of the biggest prizes in the all-out war for the public airwaves. The reason: high-tech companies have figured out how to profitably rebuild the antiquated dispatching system into an advanced cellular-telephone network that can take on the likes of AT&T and the giant Baby Bells. Upstart Nextel Communications sent shock waves through the industry last week when it agreed to buy Motorola's SMR frequencies for $1.8 billion...
...generous as Applied Materials. To keep up with fast-changing technology and workplace , requirements, some analysts say, workers can expect to change careers -- not just jobs, careers -- three or four times during their working lives. That may be extreme, but experts say a high-tech worker must be ready to go back to school and learn new skills, on his or her own if an employer will not finance it, at a minimum of every five to 10 years...
...have this fab boyfriend who I really like a lot, but there's a problem. His extracurricular activity is theater. Specifically, tech stuff. As a result, I go with him to every single play that goes up at Harvard. Every single one. "Heidi Chronicles." "Fuente Ovejuna." "Merlyn." "No Second Troy." "La Cage Aux Folles." "Deathtrap." You name it, I've seen it. I'm running out of "Opening Night" clothes. Why couldn't he be on the hockey team or be on the U.C. or even The Crimson? or even a capella, for God's sake! I'm sick...
...password creates a delusion of self-importance. Although 11,000 of your closest friends may be on the network at the same time as you, your password deceives you into thinking you have been granted privileged access to a new high-tech world...