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...balanced roster of titles on each side by Christmas - HD DVD anchored by Universal and Warner Bros, with additional movies from Paramount, with Sony, Lionsgate, Fox and Disney leading the Blu-ray lineup. Paramount and Warner have pledged to make Blu-ray discs, too, but I'll wager that the two studios' respective aces, the Star Trek box set and The Matrix Trilogy, appear in HD DVD first. Once again, tables may turn when the $600 Blu-ray-equipped PlayStation 3 launches this November, but for the moment, Samsung's Blu-ray player costs twice as much as Toshiba...
...have had no noticeable effect on the outside world’s perception of Harvard’s polished veneer. Why then, do the best and the brightest continue to flock to Harvard? Some come for a specific scientist, others come for the squash team, but most, I wager, come for the fulfillment of definition “b”: a network and a job. In all of Harvard’s history, these two aspects of the “Harvard experience” have blossomed in a symbiotic, cyclic relationship; students mix with their exemplary peers...
Under NCAA rules, student athletes are prohibited from betting on any sporting event—something rowers do every week. Prior to each race, competing crews wager racing T-shirts, with the victors taking home the shirt of each crew they’ve beaten. Such practice would fall by the wayside under NCAA restrictions, destroying one of the more storied traditions of college athletics’ oldest sport...
...sort of personal information that might make its way to employers, parents, or significant others. Much too has been made of the importance of putting creative work in digital form for the benefit of our peers and for the sake of human intellectual endeavor. But I’d wager that no one ever thinks about one peculiar side effect of all of this: it’s not just our peers we’re exposing ourselves to—it’s our progeny.Effectively, everything we now write and put online is a time capsule. What?...
...WITS & WAGERS The average human tongue has how many taste buds? In this lively trivia game, teams ponder such stumpers and jot down their answers. Players then wager points on which team's guesses are closest to the correct answer...