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MicroOptical has begun selling a model that connects to a video iPod for $299. The challenge is to avoid the Segway scooter's problems: sticker shock and nerdiness. "We have to overcome the geek factor," admits Kokinakis, "so we have more of an Oakley look than Star Trek...
...photographs.Rockefeller’s photographs provide a refreshing antidote to the walls of the Fogg Museum, which are sadly bare of photography.Along with the landscape photography at the Museum of Natural History, “New Guinea Photographs,” on view until February, rewards the short trek past Quincy Street to Divinity Avenue with exceptional interdisciplinary photographs at institutions not commonly seen as destinations for the art-seeking crowd. And, being insulated from this ‘crowd,’ these shows reward doubly. With none of the presumptuousness of art museums, they are a fortunate...
Confronted with this evolving landscape, hedge funds have had to grow up. You can see it in the way managers trek to Washington for Capitol Hill meet-and-greets. You can see it in the way big-name banks like Morgan Stanley and Citigroup poach existing shops and expand their hedge-fund practices. You can see it in the run-up of bloated, billion-dollar-plus firms. You can see it in how hedgies talk about their industry as if it is an industry, and not an unrelated mishmash of investment strategies...
...water to be found, except perhaps at the First Aid Tent. Harvard University Dining Services had run out, and, of course, no one was permitted to bring their own supplies through the entrance. Students made the best of it, but many soon fled the crowded police zone, either to trek the long distance to the more relaxed and better organized alumni tailgates or to give up and go home...
...because I saw Harvard Stadium full for the first time, and not because all my friends actually joined me in the ritualistic trek over the bridge to Allston. And not because being stuck in such close vicinity with so many kids from Yale made it abundantly clear why I came to Harvard...