Word: refreshing
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...Sunday morning, Mineo Yamamoto, president and CEO of All Nippon Airways, which will be the first to fly the 787 next May, said that the company also worked with Boeing and Japanese toilet maker TOTO in the development of a bidet-type toilet to be "the first airline to refresh the parts that other airlines cannot reach." Go Japan...
That could change if the pioneers behind personalized radio continue to win over music lovers who are burned out on regular radio but can't be bothered to constantly refresh their iPods with 99˘ iTunes. On websites such as Last.fm, Pandora.com and the new Slacker.com personalized radio lets you train it to understand your tastes. You can, of course, just listen to the music passively as it plays on your computer. But it's even better when you make it your own, by marking each song as a favorite, skipping past it or banishing it from the station's playlist...
...beginning, we were cautiously optimistic; we had high hopes for Harvard’s general education review. It would refresh the ponderous, sometimes-suffocating Core and perhaps even reanimate academic discourse on campus. But as time wore on, as preliminary reports gave way to final reports and final reports gave way to Faculty legislation, we have become increasingly disillusioned.It now seems to us that the Curricular Review’s guiding philosophy of general education is simply too controversial and unwieldy to be practicable at Harvard at any time in the foreseeable future. It has been diluted by Faculty legislation...
...wrong – or something will be very soon.So when Harvard hits the court for its first-round NCAA matchup next weekend, the local sports channel will likely be showing highlights from the previous day’s soccer games. I’ll be forced to refresh ESPN Game Tracker every 30 seconds, all the while sending e-mails to the other beat writers for updates. It’s a rare thing that a major Crimson sports team marches all the way to the NCAA Tournament. It’s rarer still that any team, independent...
...fire was not immediately evident to those in the building. Not all students said they were inconvenienced by the server disruptions. George A. Thampy ’10 said he attempted to check his e-mail Friday afternoon, but eventually gave up. “I pounded the refresh button on my browser, and it told me the server was not online,” he said. “I took it as a sign that I should be going out and doing greater things.” But Julie A. Duncan ’09 had a paper...