Word: actualizations
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...actual decision to make millions of laptops will happen sometime in December or January," he says, predicting that finished machines could be ready by next spring. He hopes to start in seven countries--Nigeria, India, China, Thailand, Brazil, Argentina and Egypt--with a combined total of at least 5 million orders. For the first year or so, however, the $100 laptop will probably cost...
...well on such tests—the carrot and the stick, as the Education Department apparently envisions it, are directed towards the institution. If such a system were implemented, colleges would likely spend precious funds on preparing their students for the test instead of giving them an actual liberal arts education. But the preparation would be futile, since students’ welfare would not be tied to their scores...
...South Asian community that has a "smooth flow of goods, services, peoples, technologies, knowledge, capital, culture and ideas ..." Yet even as the agreement was being drafted, bureaucrat underlings back home were contemplating new ways to separate themselves from neighboring countries-not through trade barriers or diplomatic hurdles, but with actual, physical walls...
...such imperfections: light leakages, unplanned compositions, flaws in focus and inadvertent exposures create an accidental art and a welcome change from the sometimes sterile domain of conventional fine-art photography. In fact, the pictures are so enchanting that you almost wish the publishers had reproduced them in larger than actual size. But it's a minor complaint, given the book's beauty. This "anthropology of the ordinary," as the authors put it, is nothing short of remarkable...
...McCain was a few minutes late to the actual speech, where he was introduced in front of an assembly of veterans who held the expected pre-printed signs - "Battle tested," "Veterans for McCain" - and one wholly unexpected one: "Quantum physicist for McCain...