The kindle is a relatively new creation. At only 8.7 ounces, this piece of technology can hold up to 3,500 books. The kindle boasts the ability to reduce the glare issue of “ordinary paper”, and provides the user with the ability to select from eight font sizes that can be changed at any time.

ATLANTA – With a thick shot of cement plugging the last worrisome part of BP’s troubled well, government officials were one final pressure test away from declaring the source of American’s worst offshore oil spill dead as early as Sunday.

If successful, the so-called “bottom kill” will close a chapter on a disaster story that began with a deadly explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and quickly became a central crisis for the Obama White House, a confirmation of the oil industry’s inability to handle a major spill, and a reminder of the often risky and dangerous work required to feed the nation’s fossil-fuel addiction.

CORAIL-CESSELESSE, Haiti – It was promised as the place where those displaced from the Western Hemisphere’s worst natural disaster could begin to rebuild their shattered lives as they await the birth of a new city.

Here, 12 miles north of a quake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, on a sun-beaten gravel plain, thousands left homeless by the catastrophic Jan.

From the intimidating upperclassmen, to the new teacher and schedules to the new person living in your room- it can be hard to adjust to a new environment while navigating through new classes, picking your major and finding a new group of friends. At Salve Regina there are many ways to get involved and meet new people.

The door of the office formerly shared by Mosaic and SGA is propped open on a Monday afternoon. Boxes everywhere, papers scattered, maintenance workers moving boxes and tables in and out on hand trucks, the phone ringing off the hook, students in and out with questions.