Monday, November 3, 2008
Nothing’s Ever Good Enough for You Uppity Harvard Folk, Is It?
Harvard University, which eagerly signed onto Google’s controversial book scanning project in 2005, isn’t so keen on the project now that the company’s agreed to settle the lawsuits questioning its legality. Troubled by uncertainties in the settlement, Harvard will not participate in Google’s in-copyright book scanning effort–even if Google’s recent $125 million settlement with the Authors Guild and an alliance of five major publishers is approved.
Facebook manager Justin Rosenstein once described the social network as “the Google of yesterday, the Microsoft of long ago.” Today, Rosenstein perhaps views it as the Facebook of So Totally Last Week, because he’s leaving the company, along with departing Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. 
To increased endurance, capacity for mental and physical labor, gastrointestinal disturbance and other effects of coffee add one more: longevity. According to a new study of coffee drinking, people who drink several cups of coffee every day are less likely to die of heart disease than those don’t.
