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...sense of wonder If you're so addicted to TV that you feel withdrawal pangs when you're outdoors, Microsoft wants to help. It released two new portable media centers - built by Creative and Samsung - in September, with a third by iRiver out this month. Each has a color screen and a hard drive that can store music, pictures and video. It may prove difficult to enjoy a full-length movie on a 9-cm screen, but you will have other media from which to choose: Microsoft has partnered with content providers CinemaNow and Major League Baseball (just in time...
...Hark now features a plasma screen for Law School announcements, student mailbox cubbies, an elevator, wooden floors, and up-to-date electrical, mechanical, audio-visual and air conditioning systems...
...Small operators like the students at Harvard can do this and they stay under the radar screen of the publishers because the publishers don’t want this to be happening,” Powell said. “Online competitors have what we call cherry-picked, the biggest titles and most expensive books. It works for the small operator but it doesn’t work for the larger operator who has a large list like...
Sixty years ago, LAUREN BACALL showed Humphrey Bogart how to whistle. At the Venice Film Festival last week, the husky-voiced screen veteran showed attendees how to handle hot air. While publicizing the film Birth, Bacall, 80, was asked by a reporter how it felt to work with her co-star, fellow "legend" NICOLE KIDMAN, 37. Bacall, who also shared the screen with the waifish Cold Mountain star in last year's Dogville, replied that "[Kidman's] not a legend. She's a beginner." The dig seemed to be aimed more at the breathless journalist than at Oscar winner Kidman...
...eliminating all the flutist's notes from the score. Pharmaceutical firms can use the information gleaned from gene silencing to design more-effective drugs. Thanks to the funding and freedom Echeverri and his two collaborators, Anthony Hyman and Pierre Gonczy, have received, Cenix is now working with Bayer to screen some 6,000 genes identified by Bayer as potential targets for drug development...