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FlyBy readers be warned: the other FlyBy—the allegedly fast alternative to battling the river house dhalls at lunch—seems to have declined in its rapidity. No longer a forgotten option for the perpetually busy upperclassman (or Quad resident), FlyBy's popularity has apparently grown noticeably this year...
...FlyBy (HUDS) yesterday afternoon during the 12 p.m. rush to discover a slow moving line of students winding around all the way around the pub exterior to the door at the end of the hall. Some students were making practical use of the waiting time, catching up on some forgotten class reading and even meticulously taking notes in the margins while robotically shuffling along towards their destination. Read on about this new inefficiency after the jump...
...increasing access to print media, which is almost never the case with the other developments in this field. In the age of the e-book and the Amazon Kindle, it is refreshing to see the actual object of the book itself revived and sustained rather than replaced and forgotten. That said, the increased access to books—especially to more seasoned titles—that the machine creates will appeal to an older generation of readers that never embraced online technology in the first place. With this new machine, nothing is lost as a result of a technological transition...
...millions of lives have been both upended and uplifted. My great-grandfather and his family were buffeted by some of those forces too (though with nowhere near the terrible consequences experienced by countless other Chinese). While his achievements have long been recognized by epidemiologists worldwide, they were largely forgotten in China after the communists took over. In the aftermath of "liberation," foreign links and laurels, once celebrated, became perilous liabilities. Wu's relatives, including my father, fled in 1949, in part because they feared that their overseas ties might hurt them in the new China...
...easily could have immediately stopped imports of U.S. chickens or auto parts or anything else by concocting some health risk or claiming a failure to meet Chinese safety standards. Instead, we kicked the can down the road, launching an 'investigation' about possible trade violations - one that will be long forgotten by the Chinese public by the time it's completed months from now. (See pictures of China's investments in Africa...