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...from the pampering ways of my mother and far from the warmth and security of my country. Nelson Manglallan Rome Your story struck the right chord. Italy's youth have much to offer, and we should adopt a more positive attitude. The past five years of misgovernment helped spread a sense of hopelessness and malaise among Italy's young, but we must not feel cynical and impotent. We ought to take steps to get what we deserve. I have just come back from the polls, where I voted to turn over a new leaf in our history, hoping that...
...student groups out here celebrating environmental awareness and involvement,” said Faon M. O’Connor ’08, co-chair of Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee (EAC). Neighborhood establishments such as Harvest Supermarkets also turned out to hawk their wares and spread their environmentally friendly message. “This is our first time coming to Earth Day here at Harvard,” said Chris Durkin, Director of Membership and Community Relations at Harvest. “It’s a good opportunity to meet students and let them know what...
...Sunday it was the protestors themselves who were dispensing the brutality. Word had spread among the crowd gathered in Chabahil, a hotbed of the protest movement, that a dozen or so police informers had infiltrated the crowd. No sooner were at least three men, despite their protests of innocence, beaten so badly that they were taken away by ambulance to a hospital. Then a rumor broke out that another informer had escaped into a neighboring four-story building. The crowd surrounded the building, and demanded that the owner open up. The owner shouted back that the informer had gone...
...peer-to-peer) reach associated with music-sharing services like Napster, which got in trouble by allowing users to share material illegally. "We allow only one stream at a time,'' he notes. That is, a Slingbox routes a TV signal only to its owner. Users cannot configure it to spread the signal out to other recipients. Still, the temptations are strong. At MipTV in Cannes, Krikorian was mobbed with interest after showing off the device. A French commercial broadcaster, to take one example, was asking to co-brand the Slingbox in France. The more Slingbox broadcasts that are zapped around...
...education of Lisa Friedman, patient, had begun. Like any other patient--and perhaps even more so--she had to drag information out of her physicians. "They were treating me like I was knowledgeable, but they weren't listening to me." When she found out that the cancer had spread to several places in one breast, Friedman told her surgeon there was no need to preserve her breast for cosmetic reasons; she was more concerned that the cancer be entirely removed. She asked for a mastectomy--but she was told that a lumpectomy would do the job fine. "I went along...