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...this weekend stays sunny, you will see Harvard at its best. Charles River’s is the most beautiful vista on warm days. Though this isn’t Stanford, with spastic Cambridge weather, if it isn’t the parties, the academics, or your fellow students that convince you to come here, let it be a sparkling pre-frosh weekend...
...biggest - where years of refuse dumping have formed a scarred ridge of eroded ground and spewed garbage. More than 1,000 people live here. They are born here, they breed, bleed and die here. Only the devil could have come up with the name for this place: Boa Vista, which means beautiful outlook...
...outlook for the garbage-dump people of Boa Vista is a fly-blown, post-apocalyptic scene of desolation at the edge of the world. Their shacks are built of cardboard, driftwood, old iron and fraying plastic. Near-naked children play tag among the filthy debris. Only one in three will survive beyond the age of five. Most of the Boa Vista squatters have no formal identity papers. They have to beg, steal or barter for food and clothing. Motorists who drive along the potholed road below the cliff-dwellers look the other way. "Yes, we know about Boa Vista," said...
Most important, Rex works. Unlike the Vista, which gives gadgetry a bad name, Rex made even a techno-skeptic like me a little weak in the knees. It's impeccably stylish, right down to its cobalt blue docking station and purple cable connector, and at $150 to $190 (depending on the type of PC connection you choose), it's cheaper than most full-size handhelds. It's custom-made for notebook users who can slide it into a PC card slot for updates. True, it doesn't offer all the expansion options of the bigger handhelds, such as games...
...fingers uncramped, I finally wised up and started entering information directly on my PC. I figured that when I was done, I could just copy it into the Vista using the cable and synching software that came with it. I figured wrong. Plagued with error messages, I pored over the useless manual and misleading online troubleshooting suggestions on the Royal website--to no avail. Not until I got a replacement unit and downloaded a new file online was I able to get the thing to work right. Even then, the Vista had so many quirks and bugs--names would...