WASHINGTON – Snow, wind and slush hounded eastern commuters Wednesday as blizzard warnings from Baltimore to New York City heralded the second major storm in a region already blanketed by historic weekend snowfalls More than 10 inches of new snow fell before dawn in parts of Maryland that had received up to 30 inches just a few days earlier. Plows and salt spreaders fought heavy snow in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, where the flakes briefly turned to rain to make a slushy mix.
February 10, 2010 | Posted in
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Stop the presses! The New Yorker , our sister publication and a magazine so staid that yes, in fact, it does insist on capping the second “o” in “cooperate” with a
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The first thing all reference books proclaim about Francesco Cavalli’s “Giasone,” a hit of the 1649 Carnival season in Venice, is that it became to be the most popular opera of the 17th century. Admired for its wit, its lush melodic invention and its delicious immorality, this entertainment may not have the profundity of such 17th century masterpieces as Monteverdi’s “Coronation of Poppea” or Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas,” but Cavalli’s is still a terrific opera, and three and half centuries seems an awfully long time for it to reach the West Coast, as it finally has. The resourceful UCLA Opera is the reviver.
Last week , Microsoft said it was investigating issues in Windows 7 that affect batteries on certain notebooks after hundreds of users reported they thought the OS was to blame. Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division, has posted a lengthy response on the Engineering Windows 7 blog. “At this time we have no reason to believe there is any issue related to Windows 7 in this context,” Sinofsky writes
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Just as it looked like Amazon was about to achieve an iTunes-style lock on the e-book marketplace, the impending arrival of Apple’s iPad seems to have emboldened book publishers. After a pricing dispute caused all Macmillan titles to disappear off Amazon’s virtual shelves , other publishers joined the pricing revolt , demanding greater flexibility in setting prices on their wares. According to the Wall Street Journal , Amazon has apparently settled the first of these disputes by capitulating
