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...Bridge to Nowhere: This basic but blissfully secluded lodge sits beside the stunning Wanganui River. Owners Joe Adam and Mandy Jackson, their six children and a host of farm pets make you feel wonderfully at home as soon as you enter the six-room lodge. Rates begin from $75 per person per night; www.bridgetonowhere-lodge.co.nz...
...simplest level, GarageBand lets you lay down loops?prerecorded short riffs by drums, bass, piano and so on. There are some 1,000 loops to choose from on the basic software and 2,000 more on the $99 add-on, Jam Pack. Here's the clever bit: the loops are arranged not just by instrument but also under mood-based headings such as "Relaxed," "Intense," "Cheerful" and so on. Click and drag your loops into the score, and they become interactive. You can stretch and splice them like lumps of Play-Doh. In just 10 minutes I found I could...
Small-state politicians argue that every state, no matter how underpopulated, needs a boost of money to achieve a minimal level of security after Sept. 11. "Whether it's a state of half a million or 4 million, you've got to do certain basic things," Senator Leahy told Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge during a February hearing. Says Doug Friez, the top homeland-security official in North Dakota (pop. 642,200), which received $52 a person in federal funds last year, the fourth highest per-capita allocation by state: "We realize North Dakota may not be first...
...would be ideal if every American town had a basic level of readiness, but the total pot of money is too small, says Tim Ransdell. He authored one of the few comprehensive assessments of homeland-security money on behalf of the Public Policy Institute of California. "Wyoming and South Dakota are important states, but it's a bit counterintuitive to say an individual in those states is manyfold more important than someone living in a state that has a border with a foreign nation, some of the nation's icons and almost half of the nation's containerized cargo." Says...
Although Harvard and schools like it will lose, the system as it stands is blatantly unfair; reform is a bigger priority. We recognize that the University’s enormous endowment does not insulate it from million dollar losses in federal aid, but basic equity demands that we support a new federal formula...