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Essay: Remembering Alexandra's Haiti

By Emily TroutmanMar 17th 2010 – 8:30AM
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (March 17) -- Three months ago, I stood on the fifth floor of the Hotel Christopher, as the sun was setting, looking out at this city with Alexandra Duguay, public information officer for the United Nations. One month later, Alexandra was dead. Two months after that, here I am, remembering especially...

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Random access memory (RAM) is a form of computer data storage. Today, it takes the form of integrated circuits that allow stored data to be accessed in any order with a worst case performance of constant time.

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