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...Elect a mayor who can serve as a seventh School Committee member, continue to fund schools at high levels, and engage MIT and Harvard, not just as institutes, but as a vast pool of individual staff and students...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Aguero, Margaret W. Ho, Claire Provost, and Tina Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: City Council: Election 2003 | 11/4/2003 | See Source »

...free wi-fi in San Francisco, the city has Brewster Kahle to thank for sowing the seeds of SFLAN back in 1997. An entrepreneur who sold his search-engine business to Amazon.com Kahle now runs the Internet Archive, a nonprofit that collects and stores a vast library of defunct Web pages. He buys his Internet access wholesale from a local company at the bargain rate of $30 per megabit per month. The archive needs many thousands of megabits to do its job, and Kahle considers the amount of bandwidth that Pozar's San Bruno antenna requires--which costs Kahle less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free and Easy | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...finding new songs isn’t the only perk; iTunes can also forge new relationships. One’s musical tastes can provide plenty of insight into personality and compatibility. At Lamont last week, I was smitten by Margo, whose vast collection of soundtracks and eclectic pop tastes mirrored my own aural fetishes. Was Margo my true soulmate? Were we meant to be? A quick directory search suggested that the answer was, sadly, no. The only undergraduate Margo I found was some guy in Currier House, although there is a visiting professor at the Law School who just...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, | Title: Tuning in to File Streaming | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

Unless you've been seriously out of the loop, you'll know that "New Zealand cuisine" is no longer an unthinkable string of words, and that there's more to the country's larder than frozen lamb and vast slabs of bland cheddar cheese. The past 20 years have seen an explosion of creativity among Kiwi chefs, restaurateurs and winemakers, as well as growing appreciation of the purity of the country's produce - a bankable quality in these times of genetic tomfoolery and junk food. Gourmands heading south over the next few months will be in for a treat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Southern Cook-off | 11/2/2003 | See Source »

Rosenthal said intoxicated students are routinely subjected to toxicology tests, but that of the one to three such tests administered every week, the vast majority only test for alcohol...

Author: By David B. Rochelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UHS Allegedly Bungled Case | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

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