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...officer observed an individual in Mather House tossing items out a window. The officer spoke to the perpetrator, who agreed to clean up the area...
When University of Pennsylvania administrators encourage undergrads to practice protected sex, they probably don’t have a window shade in mind.But after the publication of photos depicting a couple in the act taken through an uncovered window sparked a campus scandal about free speech, Penn might consider talking to students about more than just condoms.A junior engineering major who took the photos posted two of them in September on his personal, password-protected university website, although the login was available on his AOL Instant Messenger profile, the Daily Pennsylvanian—Penn’s student newspaper?...
...but—not to get all existential or anything—it isn’t entirely clear what that means. When Fifteen Minutes ran an article and photo featuring Matthew W. Mahan ’05 at the end of his presidential term (gazing out a window, wistfully), it wasn’t clear what he was leaving behind. Likewise, with Matthew J. Glazer ’06 coming up on his last official hair-flip as president of the UC, it isn’t any more clear what his administration’s legacy will...
...national identity and the desire for an independent country of their own. First it was just a minority, then this feeling took over the majority," he says. "The same will happen with democracy. It's the minority who start." Throughout lunch, a plainclothes cop is standing by the window outside. "He is a police major," says Statkevich. "Not a bad guy, but he has to follow the kgb orders." A kgb of the old school is just part of what makes Lukashenko's Belarus such a throwback to the Soviet past. Statkevich is not the only opposition leader doing time...
...using, say, a tiny solar cell, vibrations from a spinning tire or even the movement of a light switch. Then an extremely low-power sensor does its job and sends radio signals to a receiver that collects the data. The sensors can be used to adjust shades on a window, measure air pressure in a tire or regulate temperature and humidity in a building. When the city of Dresden began renovating the Baroque Semper Opera House, it wanted to monitor humidity. But regulations protecting historical buildings prohibited opening the walls to lay cable. So Thermokon, the company that provided...