NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...

That same night, two TV cameramen fought – poorly
— after angrily wrestling for position during Ster
n’s sidewalk press conference. That was the last t
ime the sides used the Lowell.
We thought the odyssey would end much sooner. For
a minute, we thought it had. On Sept. 8, Roger Mas
on Jr., a member of the players’ executive board,
sent out a Twitter message: “Looking like a season
. How u.” Mason said the message was inadvertent a
nd was not intended as a prediction.
Mason’s misstep spawned a lockout meme, later join
ed by “marathon session,” “mutant pizza” and “enor
mous consequences” in the lockout lexicon. An N.B.
A. blog, Outside the Arc, immortalized them in a l
yrical tribute, put to the tune of Billy Joel’s “W
e Didn’t Start the Fire.”
The last night was the longest. I filed an article
announcing the lockout’s end around 6:30 a.m. The
sun was rising as a cab took me over the Manhatta
n Bridge. The New York Times was already on my sto
op. The most surreal chapter in my N.B.A. reportin
g career had reached its weary conclusion.
With a vote by N.B.A. owners on Thursday afternoon,
a sense of normalcy will return.
It is, finally, looking like a season. How u?
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NYT-1208
Millions? Private Jet? Columbia Offers New York ...
By ANDREW KEH
Columbia, which is searching for a new coach after
a 1-9 season, can't compete with the likes of Ohi
o State, but it does have its advantages.
===== notyet
Early one morning last week, inside Columbia’s sub
terranean athletic center in Upper Manhattan, M. D