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Airports are grinding to a halt so frequently these days that even the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily lost track. Portions of Los Angeles International Airport, the world's third busiest, were closed or evacuated four times in eight days this month. In one incident, a "suspicious" item detected by a screening machine turned out to be a food processor. A terminal in Connecticut was sealed last week when a pair of scissors was discovered in a trash...
...about to bump up against his: Beijing-based Legend Computer. Legend is the runaway PC leader in China, a country that represents one of the planet's last great I.T. sales opportunities. Despite relatively low penetration rates, China's $10 billion computer market is already the third largest in the world; within a few years it is expected to move past Japan and become second only to the U.S. For computer companies, success on the mainland is becoming increasingly crucial as markets in developed countries reach saturation. Last year, worldwide PC sales declined for the first time in nearly...
...crazy with them though. The mental shock of jumping from a two-page article about which type of make-up brush to use when applying eyeshadow to an in-depth report about sexual deviants or a detailed account of one woman’s traumatizing experience in a third world country is a bit much. The juxtaposition trivializes what should be a serious story featured in a magazine with other serious stories. I find myself grimacing at the just-for-shock-value pictures and poo-pooing the sensationalist headlines, while neglecting to read, or even skim, what might...
...problems seem to matter any more. Which is important and impressive, because Great Big Sea is from the province of Newfoundland in Canada. Newfoundland is an island off the East Coast, famous to the rest of the world mostly for being cold and far from anywhere else. The economy of the entire region is in shambles and about a third of the population is unemployed. Great Big Sea serves as the unofficial symbol of Newfoundland to those who know little or nothing about the province, and prove conclusively that music, company and beer are all that’s necessary...
...ideal world, top schools would return to a system in which C is acceptable, B is very good and A is absolutely first-rate. Since that’s not going to happen, I offer three attainable goals. First, Harvard students could drop the hypocritical position that all grades should be high but that no one should leak it to the “outside world.” Second, students could get firmly behind the proposal to list the average grade for every course on their transcripts. Third, students could recognize that they can either do outstanding academic work...