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...some, Christmas comes the first week in January, when the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) takes place in Las Vegas. This year 2,500 exhibitors showcased everything from a 103-in. plasma TV to a portable ½-in.-thick satellite radio. Here are the products and the services we considered to be best in show...
READING THE FUTURE Sony hopes its 1/2-in.-thick Reader, with a high-contrast screen and enough memory to hold the text of 80 books, will change the way we read. Sony's online bookstore has a few thousand eBook titles available for download...
...part of Ghosh's curious luck that he often seems to be in the thick of things: he was a schoolboy in Sri Lanka just before civil war broke up the island, and he was living in rural Egypt when villagers around him started going to Saddam Hussein's Iraq in search of jobs. He was in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. The disappearance of seeming paradises has been his lifelong companion. More than that, though, he is an amphibian of sorts who knows what it is to be both witness and victim. Though he has a doctorate...
...very clear where this Harvard squad is likely to end up.In order to have a shot at the Ivy title, the Crimson will need to go at least 6-2 in those eight contests. Likely, however, it will take at least a 7-1 mark to remain in the thick of the title hunt.Along with the visit from Penn and Princeton, Harvard gets six of its final eight Ivy games at home (where it went 5-2 last season), giving it a distinct advantage if it can survive the early portion of the league slate.—Staff writer...
...some point--perhaps soon--Bono may have to decide how hard he can keep pushing. Because he's one of the most energetic people on the planet, Bono rarely has a down moment, but on the rare occasions when he removes his sunglasses, thick scrolls of tissue are visible under his eyes. For months his exercise routine has been compromised by a prolapsed disk in his back. "It's annoying to me that I'm overweight now," he says. He speaks to his children every other day while he's on the road, a nontraditional arrangement but one they...