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...touch it dear" pigeon guano. But London Lord Mayor Ken Livingstone has declared war on the square's infamous winged residents. Livingstone's plan is to starve them, and after months of legal wrangles and, ultimately, a lucrative settlement, the city evicted Bernard Rayner, Trafalgar's sole bird-feed vendor, from the square. Trafalgar's pigeons are so tame they would eat from children's hands?if children were clever enough to avoid the watchful patrolmen. One group has: the Pigeon Alliance. Week after week, a grandmotherly woman marches through the square with a bulging shoulder bag. From it pours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...discern your child's learning style and resolve conflicts? What kinds of foods help children concentrate - and keep them from bouncing off the walls? Unsurprisingly, the "Designing a College Preparatory High School Program" was bursting at the seams with parents. They probably made a beeline there from the vendor doing brisk business selling Princeton Review and Kaplan SAT ?prep software...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The ABC's of Home Schooling | 6/29/2001 | See Source »

Polly Price, Harvard’s associate vice president for human resources, said the HR project was originally slated to run off of software provided by the Oracle Corporation, the vendor that provided the software for the financial systems installed during the first phase of Project ADAPT...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ADAPT Changes Software Provider | 6/5/2001 | See Source »

...system] has got problems,” said Ethan Mutschler, the Boston public schools representative to the Administrative Guild of Boston. “Clearly whoever the vendor is is doing a good selling...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ADAPT Changes Software Provider | 6/5/2001 | See Source »

...allow users to specify their privacy preferences and then communicate automatically with websites using a standard language called P3P. The websites also state their privacy policies in P3P, and then the computers figure out if they match. Some of the systems require you to store your data with the vendor; others let you manage everything yourself. Some of these firms will succeed, some won't. Some are trustworthy, some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protecting the Private I | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

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