Word: absorbability
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...Pale" about white rapper Eminem greatly offended me [MUSIC, May 29]. Eminem, a.k.a. Slim Shady, belongs in a psychiatric ward. How can Americans wonder why tragedies such as Jonesboro and Columbine happen when music with offensive lyrics like Eminem's are out there for any and all to absorb? Don't listen to Eminem's degrading lyrics. If he doesn't have an audience, he has no career. There is much better music around. KENDAL DAVIS Hubertus...
...being built every day. Eventually, programmable devices will become so cheap that we will embed them in the cardboard boxes into which we put other things for storage or shipping. These passive "computers" will be activated as they pass sensors and will be able to both emit and absorb information. Such innovations will facilitate increasingly automatic manufacturing, inventory control, shipping and distribution. Checkout at the grocery store will be fully automatic, as will payment via your digital wallet...
...Seoul will be in no hurry to relinquish U.S. protection in the interim. And Seoul has it reasons in taking things slowly: South Korea is only beginning to emerge from an economic slump, and even in the unlikely even that Pyongyang were amenable, it can't afford to simply absorb North Korea in the way West Germany did East Germany. Instead, Seoul will be content to take small political steps over a number of years, while expanding investment and aid - and never entirely dropping its guard...
Taking his suggestion, I return to the memorial at dusk and wait to see the lights in the bases of the chairs. The lights are on all the time, but one cannot see them in the day, when the bases seem to absorb the pale green color of the lawn, like Coke-bottle glass. Some 50 people walk down one path and up the other in a casual ceremony. Many more were here at midday when I was with Jeanine. It is estimated that the memorial may attract as many as 1 million people a year, from all over...
...lonesome way. She tried to play every role herself: Attorney General, family shrink, hostage negotiator and grandmother manque. It meant assuming that everybody involved would behave rationally and put the child's interest first. And she believed above all that she could wait out her rivals in Miami and absorb hit after hit about her go-slow approach, certain that the law was on her side, even if nobody else...