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Dell Done Wrong

In Faulty-Computer Suit, Window to Dell Decline
By ASHLEE VANCE
Published: June 28, 2010

After the math department at the University of Texas noticed some of its Dell computers failing, Dell examined the machines. The company came up with an unusual reason for the computers’ demise: the school had overtaxed the machines by making them perform difficult math calculations. More

Wandering

Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind
By JOHN TIERNEY
Published: June 28, 2010

At long last, the doodling daydreamer is getting some respect. More

Team’s Work Uses a Virus to Convert Methane to Ethylene
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: June 28, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO — A team of molecular biologists and materials scientists said Monday they had genetically engineered a virus to convert methane to ethylene more efficiently and at a significantly lower temperature than previously possible. More

Obama Reverses Bush’s Space Policy
Beaks, Bills and Climate
From M.S. Patients, Outcry for Unproved Treatment
In Summer’s Heat, Watch What You Drink
The Claim: Diabetes Makes You Sensitive to Heat
Hair: The Long and Short of It
A Stonewall Veteran, 89, Misses the Parade

Austere

In Ireland, a Picture of the High Cost of Austerity

A housing project in the Ballymun neighborhood was abandoned when the real estate market collapsed. More Photos »
By LIZ ALDERMAN
Published: June 28, 2010

DUBLIN — As Europe’s major economies focus on belt-tightening, they are following the path of Ireland. But the once thriving nation is struggling, with no sign of a rapid turnaround in sight. More

With Command Shift in Afghanistan, Talk Turns to Withdrawal
By PETER BAKER
Published: June 28, 2010

WASHINGTON — When he ordered 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan last December, President Obama stressed that they would not stay forever. “After 18 months,” he said, “our troops will begin to come home.” More

Obama Reverses Bush’s Space Policy
By WILLIAM J. BROAD and KENNETH CHANG
Published: June 28, 2010

The Obama administration on Monday unveiled a space policy that renounces the unilateral stance of the Bush administration and instead emphasizes international cooperation, including the possibility of an arms control treaty that would limit the development of space weapons. More

Wrong Track Distress
By BOB HERBERT
Published: June 28, 2010

It’s getting harder and harder for most Americans, looking honestly at the state of the nation, to see the glass as half full. And that’s why the public opinion polls contain nothing but bad news for Barack Obama and the Democrats. More

The Court: Ignoring the Reality of Guns
Published: June 28, 2010

About 10,000 Americans died by handgun violence, according to federal statistics, in the four months that the Supreme Court debated which clause of the Constitution it would use to subvert Chicago’s entirely sensible ban on handgun ownership. The arguments that led to Monday’s decision undermining Chicago’s law were infuriatingly abstract, but the results will be all too real and bloody. More

The Court: Denying Government Support for Intolerance
Published: June 28, 2010

In the guns case, the Supreme Court did the wrong thing (prohibiting gun bans) for the right reason (extending the reach of the Bill of Rights). The opposite was true in another major case on the final day of the court’s term. More

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Last night from the mouths o' babes

Last night on the way down from the semi-high aerie of the 9th floor where I work, I took the elevator all the way down to the first floor where the D'Amico's newest restaurant, Parma 8200, just opened on Friday. I asked to look at the lunch and dinner menu, and they, sharp eyed and straight, even toothed like most front-of-the-house, asked if I worked in the building. (I'm not sure how they ever guessed, unless it was the sleek black shoulder bag I carried or the fact that I descended not down the long, awkward processional stairway that descends from the second floor skyway to the parking ramp, but from the elevator bay. They brought me the two menus, in leather wrappers, and while I perused them, I asked if they were having a Grand Opening, since most restaurants like to start slow and work out the kinks before throwing money on publicity. "No," they said. "We had four days of training before we opened on Friday." I smiled, and got back on the elevator to the second floor rather than take the long, awkward processional stairway up one floor to the skyway for the parking ramp.

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