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...schools to thrive without their own buildings. At Duke, for instance, a residence hall holds a 2,000-square-foot, seven-room women’s center, which offers a kitchen, a work area with computers, a reading room, two lounges, a copier and fax machine, and a TV, VCR, and DVD player. Duke’s center has five professional staff members, and its website boasts that “Our meeting spaces are HEAVILY used throughout the year...
...courageous new memoir, A Fractured Mind (Hyperion; 285 pages), he performed what he calls his addiction ritual. "It required," he writes, "two packs of cigarettes, Polish sausage, a gallon of ice cream, a two-pound bag of peanuts, a bottle of scotch, and a pornographic movie on the VCR...
...unit, and it has video input as well as output, so you can watch what you're doing on a regular TV screen. The breakout box also has a jack for an infrared wire, for use in changing channels on your cable box or VCR...
Every so often we're dumbfounded by the newest thing to come along: the iPod, the TiVo, even, once upon a time, the VCR and the Walkman. The Slingbox definitely does its part to dumbfound. It's not a DVD player, or a cable box, or a video recorder like TiVo. It's a little manager, shaped like a brick of gold bullion, that takes video sources like cable TV, TiVo and DVD, and sends the signal to your PC. What's crazy is that it doesn't matter if your PC is in the next room or in Singapore...
...shills mean the 15-member Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe. The booking took nearly 14 years of talks with the Peking government. To make their guests comfortable, the circus stocked up on rice "by the major bagful," built a special train car with a Chinese-style kitchen and put in a VCR on which the visitors play almost nothing but Kung Fu movies. "We've been a big hit in every town we visited," notes Deputy Director Xu Zhiyuan. After ten cities, the tumblers are still adjusting from the intimate Chinese circus style to what Xu politely calls "a very grand presentation...