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...Square facility will be a watered-down version of his original job, and indicative of a slow, but purposeful, diminishment of the serials services division. The concern comes less than a week after the University delivered early retirement incentive packages to 1,600 staffers, opening a 45-day decision window for those eligible. The possibility of layoffs will be considered after the decision window closes in early April, and it is unlikely that HCL will be left untouched. “[I]t is apparent there is no way to protect HCL’s workforce from reductions...
...hardcore alcoholism. A four-pack-a-day smoker with emphysema, he devoted himself to his craft. "Yates' work was infinitely more important to him than anything in his life," says his biographer, Blake Bailey, whose 2004 book, A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates, opened a window on the novelist's anguish. "He lived in these squalid apartments, with cockroaches squashed all around his desk chair and curtains grey with nicotine and what not. And people would think, oh, my God - how can he live like that? But the fact was, for Yates, if the work...
...Chinese government hired Koolhaas’s firm to design a new headquarters for CCTV. The massive six-million-square-foot complex that resulted, which includes the Television Cultural Center, came to be known as “Zhichuang,” or “knowledge window.” With two leaning towers connected in mid-air, the complex’s design seeks to challenge what is possible, much like the Chinese government itself...
...Intel processor that is two years old has more power than almost anyone needs. Laptops made two years ago were light and had impressive battery life. The screen resolution from most machines bought in 2006 is fine for watching online videos or DVDs. And, PCs used to come with Window XP, which is still preferred to the current Microsoft product, Vista...
...curlicues and flowers, and, man, streets just full of people. White people, black people, mixed-race people, all jumbled up together and walking. Music right on the sidewalk...a whole band and drum set and everything, like the whole city is a big party. I'm looking out the window, eyes big as saucers - eight years old - and I'm thinking, this is a whole different way to be a Negro; I'm thinking, this is where Daddy gets his groove." (See the special report on "Hurricane Katrina - Two Years Later...