Word: use
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...world that you’ve been up all night pouring over the new [insert favorite author] novel. Coffee should be obtained from a small café. Starbucks drinkers are to be scorned. 1. Moleskine (or other pocket) notebook Employed by Van Gogh, Picasso and Hemingway, the strategic use of this item will situate you within the great Western Tradition. Notebook is especially effective in displaying your creativity when used for jotting down abstract thoughts or elaborate doodles in the presence of others. 0. Appear non-conformist. —Ama R. Francis is the incoming Covers Editor...
...lighting we use for our holiday decorations are LED lights. We are now going with solar units, and it’s all been an effort to work towards sustainability,” said Denise A. Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association...
...Imagine for a minute that books disintegrate as soon as the publisher goes out of business, or that paintings fade away when their particular brand of pigment is no longer in use. This is the world of Digital Rights Management, in which digital media files are encrypted and hidden from their owner unless a server at Sony or Apple explicitly allows them to be played. When these companies collapse, the media files will be worthless. Every encrypted iTunes download strengthens the hold of DRM, so smash your computer before it’s too late. 2. Vista Now that Apple...
...curved to facilitate easy gripping. Larger sizes are available, but this little gem is a great solution for travelers concerned with packing light. The only downside is the narrow pop-up mouthpiece with a loop-less, removable cap that, much like the ubiquitous commercial water bottle, requires you to use two hands - one for the cap, the other for the bottle - to drink. Price: $6.95 (0.5 liter); $7.95 (1 liter); $9.95 (2-plus liters...
...Mugabe's regime has a long-established willingness to use violence against its political opponents. In Matabeleland in the mid-1980s, his army killed thousands of civilians in a campaign to bloody the opposition Zapu Party. When his ruling Zanu-PF lost the March election, the security forces and allied militia were again unleashed to bludgeon Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) into backing out of a presidential runoff vote. Yet when Zimbabweans protest, with backing by world leaders, at its government's refusal to be voted out - the normal channels of democratic process - that action has little...