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...second act as foxy cabaret singers, offering refreshing vocal precision.The attractive set design (Kathleen E. Breeden ’09 and Sally H. Rinehart ’09) included Antiques Roadshow banners, a fancy living room, and a conventionally insipid backstage dressing room. The set for the red, decadent bar scene was especially attractive. With 22 cast members, the larger-than-usual cast for Freshman Musicals was extremely effective. Although some characters had minimal roles, every cameo was well-delivered and provided relief from an otherwise insistently serious plot. The most glaring defect of the production, however, was the awkward...
...Anene said that the center will have a “corporate feel.”The walls will be translucent, which McLoughlin said would create a feeling of “activity and bustling space” while simultaneously maintaining privacy.The center will also feature a coffee bar, where students of all organizations will be able to interact.—Staff writer Elaine Chen can be reached at chen23@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff writer Joyce Y. Zhang can be reached at jyzhang@fas.harvard.edu...
...Slingbox is part of a wave of technology that consumers may well want, but could wreak havoc with traditional television companies who've paid millions for the broadcast rights to certain events and shows. But it's impossible to deny the beauty of the silvery, 27-cm-long, Chunky-bar-shaped plastic device. "The Slingbox gives you exactly what your home TV experience is when you're on the road," says Sling Media's 38-year-old chief executive Blake Krikorian, who co-invented the gadget with his younger brother Jason so that they could watch San Francisco Giants baseball...
...medicine at Johns Hopkins. "And as with any new thing, people screw things up worse before they make things better." Doctors say there is a temptation to trust computers too much: they seem objective and infallible, but if the wrong information is entered in the first place, or the bar-coded wristband is put on the wrong patient, it can be harder to prevent mistakes down the line. In one case study, a patient with pneumonia had his wristband mixed up with a diabetic patient and came very close to being given a fatal dose of insulin...
...tears over my Visual and Environmental Studies project (which, since you ask, was about portraits of dogs) when my professor–a small, irascible chap with an unplaceable accent–walked in with a grin.“Ah’ve just been to that new bar, ‘Om,’ and it’s very impressive,” he said.“Hey, what do you think of this photo?” I asked, directing him toward the screen.“The art there reminded...