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...drab lair whose denizens engaged in way too much Jedi Council--style nattering. Then--as if producer Joel Silver had pleaded, "Could you please have somebody hit somebody?"--Reloaded 180'd into an action film, with the most elaborate car chase ever shot but without the first film's zip or resonance...
...Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67. This year’s admissions process even boasts a new program to track applicants according to a “geodemographic” indicator that draws a spotlight to applicants with blue-collar-and-below zip codes, Fitzsimmons said...
Today, Fitzsimmons has figured out a way to get behind the College Board’s moratorium on income-tracking. He and his team search for high-performing students in zip codes they know to be blue-collar or below...
...instant messages sent via the Internet from their 10-year-old granddaughter in California. That wasn't always possible before wi-fi. It used to be that they would wait for cheap evening rates on their mobile phone and then dial online through a cellular modem. Now the messages zip freely back and forth. "She writes 'Grandpa?', and I write back, 'Hi, Peanut.' I love that," says...
Radio-frequency identification is, in fact, already pervasive in our lives--used to track everything from pets to prisoners to products. Cars zip through tollbooths thanks to payment systems using RFID. More than 50 million pets worldwide are tagged with RFID chips. At least 20 million livestock have RFID tags to follow them for possible disease breakouts. A museum in Rotterdam uses RFID to guard its Rembrandts and Renoirs. And for the past two years, Oscar-goers have been screened and tracked by RFID...