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While the digital age was in its infancy, Harvard began incorporating revolutionary technology into campus life, bringing word processors to Houses for the first time in April...
...Depending on how this whole operation is received, we may eventually order more word processors and experiment with additional projects such as personal computers,” Mark van Baalen, an official in the office for information services and technology, said at the time...
...weeks after the installation of the word processors, the College began offering 20 to 30 percent discounts on IBM computers to students for the first time, setting up a showroom of $2,500 to $4,000 models on the sixth floor of the Holyoke Center...
...Ripe for Revolution A recent - and extremely rare - trip into a Naxalite zone in the state of Chhattisgarh shows just how much control the Maoists have in India's neglected heartland. After weeks of negotiating, I received word from a senior commander there that cadres from the area would escort a photographer and me into the field to meet a rebel unit. After an early morning, two-hour motorbike ride along dirt roads south of the town of Dantewada, across rivers where women beat their clothes against rocks and through villages full of thatched and terracotta-roofed huts, scrawny chickens...
There's no such thing as breaking news when it comes to us from space. It's not enough for an event to occur; word of it must then travel to Earth across the vast ocean of the cosmos. The dispatch may move at the speed of light, but the journey can still take hours, years, epochs--turning current events into history long before we ever learn of them. Signals from the Cassini spacecraft, currently studying Saturn's moons, take 84 min. to reach us; the supernova whose cataclysmic birth astronomers observed earlier this year was already fading millions...