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...high enough profile that it's easy to forget that. While most high-tech firms focus on one or two sectors, Apple does all of them at once. Apple makes its own hardware (iBooks and iMacs), it makes the operating system that runs on that hardware (Mac OS X), and it makes programs that run on that operating system (iTunes, iMovie, Safari Web browser, etc.). It also makes the consumer-electronics devices that connect to all those things (the rapidly multiplying iPod family), and it runs the online service that furnishes content to those devices (iTunes Music Store...
...learn something new at Harvard everyday. Yesterday, I was informed by a uniformed staffer at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) that I wasn’t allowed to wear jeans while using the equipment because “it wears down the fabric on the seats.” I was left wondering what the differences are between a 100 percent cotton t-shirt and a 100 percent cotton pair of denim jeans, since the former must touch the fabric of those machines hundreds of times a day. If places like the MAC are just going to make arbitrary rules...
...There are no jeans allowed in the MAC because they speak esperanto...
...MAC employees, Patricia Arquette, short female fans of Italian cuisine, and amorous salmon be damned—I want to soar...
...buck from the mayhem they once caused. Companies set up by ex-republican and ex-loyalist prisoners offer firsthand accounts of the bad old days in their warring neighborhoods. The onetime enemies will even - quietly - share clients. "Thousands of people are coming here every week," says Caoimhín Mac Giolla Mhín from the Irish Republican Army prisoners' group, Coiste, as another bus passes along the Catholic Falls Road. "They're not coming here for fishing. Not everybody wants to lie on a beach." Onboard one of Lavelle's buses last week, 40 people listened attentively...