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...done." He likes to play practical jokes, such as issuing a press release on April Fool's Day stating that there was, in fact, no Craig. And he's proudest of the "random acts of kindness" he often sees on the site, such as the woman who offered her vacuum cleaner to a public school or the British immigrant who gave someone advice on securing a work visa...
...predict. About the same time that Schrodinger unleashed his quantum cat, the British mathematician Alan Turing was sketching out the theory of the modern digital computer. A decade later, during World War II, Turing was helping program Colossus, a room-size electronic calculating machine that used 1,800 vacuum tubes to crack German codes. The abstraction had become real...
Luckily, the scantily-clad-male-undergraduate-calendar vacuum need not remain vacant for long. As in so many other fields, from football to academics, Harvard undergraduates can here succeed where their New Haven brethren have failed. And in this economic environment, Harvard charitable efforts would benefit from the proceeds. A call for nude volunteers will encourage commitment-shy Harvard students to finally commit themselves to charitable endeavors—body and soul...
Having packed up after the International Housewares Show in Chicago last week, Salton product manager John Howell is still bursting with pride for what he claims is a first: the $300 Westinghouse Unplugged Cord-Free Vacuum, a full-size vacuum cleaner that runs on rechargeable batteries and is due out in June. "This," he says in dead earnest, as if showgoers had never seen a Dustbuster, "is completely revolutionary...
Some of the most practical gizmos were the simplest. Cordless was big. In addition to the vacuum cleaner, Maytag, Panasonic and Euro-Pro were all hawking cordless clothes irons. At $25, Select Brand's battery-powered corkscrew was both cheap and useful, taking only seconds to uncork a bottle of Chardonnay in our tests...