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...Continuous Shooting mode for consecutive shots. Is little Johnny bouncing a basketball for the first time? You'll have your choice of archiving the milestone in a movie version, or with accurate quick-motion still shots, cropped in to your liking with a zoom lens of up to 5x. The Samsung Digimax L85 costs around $500?feel free to supplement it with a roomier memory card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorgeous Body, Smart Mind | 6/12/2006 | See Source »

...Continuous Shooting mode for consecutive shots. Is little Johnny bouncing a basketball for the first time? You'll have your choice of archiving the milestone in a movie version, or with accurate quick-motion still shots, cropped in to your liking with a zoom lens of up to 5x. The Samsung Digimax L85 costs around $500 - feel free to supplement it with a roomier memory card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorgeous Body, Smart Mind | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...technical language will also increase in math. For instance, in the past, an SAT item might have stipulated that group A has 10 members and group B has 10 + 5x members, where x = 3. What's the total number in both groups? Add the 10 from group A and the 10 + (5 x 3) from group B. You get 35. But on the New SAT, the question might read, "What is the union of sets A and B?" Union and set are terms of art for mathematicians; a "union of two sets" is everything in both sets. The answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Inside The New SAT | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...This is an oddity of academic life. X dollarsbuys the students one professor, 2x dollars buysthem two, but 3x and 4x and 5x dollars graduallyremove the professor from the student, and 6xdollars may replace all the classroom professorswith graduate students...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Bennett: Harvard Epitomizes Failures in Higher Education | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

...Mary was 3% years old and Ann was ix, showing a difference of 2X years in their ages. Therefore, when Mary was 5x and Ann 3x, their combined age amounted to 44 years. Dividing 44, which equals 8x, by 8, we find that x equals 5½ years, which shows Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 14, 1952 | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

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