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...late-night Lamont Library dwellers have reason to rejoice: with the opening of the Lamont Library Café, it is now possible to avoid setting foot outside of the library from Sunday morning until Friday evening. So you were Quadded? Why not move into Lamont? In addition to plenty of comfortable chairs for sleeping, Lamont now boasts a source of sustenance on the ground floor. From 3 p.m. until late at night, the Café will serve light fare—“beverages, teas, water, juices, and some prepackaged food” like sandwiches and yogurt, according...
...needed to extract them. Add one more category of people whom the penny hurts: those who’ve ever stood in line. A study has shown that making change with pennies adds three seconds to every cash transaction. Penny elimination would save us all time and help us avoid that one customer who insists on paying with exact change, earning stares as dirty as his currency. On the other side of this particular coin, however, is that sole, intangible, conclusive argument against abolition—the poor penny is a beloved American institution; people will fight to keep...
Awkward Harvard students, always eager to avoid actual social interaction, seem to love any technology that allows them to skirt face-to-face communication. The Facebook lets us eschew talking for poking, and now, a Somerville company has decided to jump on the bandwagon. Enter Wiffiti, LocaModa’s brainchild, a program made up of a series of digital billboards in public locations where people can post text messages for free, displaying their messages for all to see. The posts appear in random positions and different sizes on the board, reminiscent of writings on a bathroom wall. Harvardians itching...
...case were indicted under California state fraud statutes, but their lawyers are expected to challenge whether these even cover pretexting; the statutes would have to be interpreted expansively to do so, and one attorney is looking at whether California even has jurisdiction over his client. To avoid such loopholes and create a clear standard, lawmakers, phone company executives and regulators have stressed how important it is to adopt federal legislation against pretexting, but party turf wars and special interests will likely prevent this from happening anytime soon. "It's mind-boggling to me how all the parties in February said...
...media is focused on the secret deliberations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, initiated by congressional Republicans and endorsed by the White House. The panel, headed by former former Secretary of State and Bush family consigliere James Baker, will not report until after November's elections, which will avoid a serious reexamination of Iraq policy being subsumed in partisan bickering...