Word: actualizations
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...Harvard research group has successfully brought a light pulse containing photons to a standstill for 10 milliseconds, marking the first time actual photons have been held in a “frozen” state...
...wish this had been the scene of an actual crime and I had been a jewel thief racing to flee the cops. Instead, my loot was the 24 sheets of film necessary to print an FM issue last spring, the scene was Charles River Printing, and my not-so-awake accomplice was FM Co-Chair Liz Maher. It was the aftermath of something far more criminal than a robbery or homicide: It was a typical FM production night, which meant it was the following day—and near the end of a seemingly eternal abyss of time...
...though it were objective terminology and not rhetoric. A classic example was Ari Fleischer’s April 2002 nonsensical term “homicide bombers” to describe Hamas suicide attacks. Fleischer was exhibiting that classic Bush-administration courage by scoring rhetorical points against terrorists, but the actual term is meaningless and even counterproductive. What bomber is not homicidal? The term “suicide bomber” exists to distinguish between terrorists who kill themselves and those who don’t. The distinction is important in dealing with terror, since the former are more powerful...
...Geneva Accord has some value for the endgame. The actual parties responsible in the theatre of discontent have yet to negotiate where and how the game should be played, let alone start the game itself. Supporting the Accord now is thus futile and counter productive, pre-supposing the end prematurely. Steve Golin Israel...
...must be careful not to conclude that the absence of any change in such admission during such a time period is firm grounds for concluding anything about change in actual behaviors such as excess alcohol usage,” he added. “We really don’t know what the reality is in those situations...