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There is a lot of excitement about devices that let you watch your own TV programming while you're traveling around the country, and even abroad. I've written about Sling Media's Slingbox and Sony's LocationFree TV in the past, but I never got a chance to test them side by side. Now that Sling has introduced a mobile-phone version of its SlingPlayer, and Sony has introduced compatibility with Windows laptops and its popular PSP game system, I felt it was high time for a showdown...
...points, respectively,. Dartmouth and Mass. Maritime Academy rounded out the top six. Although not a qualifying regatta, it provided an important tune-up for Harvard as it readies for Nationals. As it was for those at the NEISA event, getting time away from the calm Charles was an important test for Harvard. “Sailing at MIT was good practice for everyone,” senior Jess Baker said. “The results aren’t necessarily the most important thing—we benefited a lot even though we didn?...
This was an interesting weekend to go car shopping. We had concluded it was time to replace our trusty Subaru, which after long and faithful service deserved a dignified retirement. So we trolled Consumer Reports and headed off for some test drives, sniffed at the Mazda 3, petted an Impreza, focused on a Focus before falling for the Honda Civic - which thanks to its redesign looks nifty, drives nicely, has more airbags than you can count and, above all, gets 40 mpg on the highway...
...Similarly, Mario Perez, a Mexican with his green card who is trying to become a citizen, couldn?t skip class at Malcolm X College, a community college a few blocks from Union Park. ?I have an English test. Maybe I?ll go over there later, but this I have to do,? said Perez, 62, who has been in the country for about 40 years. ?That?s what I?m doing. I?m bettering myself. I want...
...murdered in May 2002. Sarkozy's comments primed France for a divisive debate in the French National Assembly this week over a new, tougher law on immigration. In the run-up to last month's regional elections in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke approvingly of more rigorous citizenship tests. "Citizenship cannot just be nodded through," she said. In the Netherlands, right-wing Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk stands a very good chance of winning this month's vote for party leader among members of the VVD party, which is part of the governing coalition. Her take-no-prisoners approach to stanching...