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Does living with a linguistic veil and a heightened interest in detail involve more fictionalizing than processing events at home? Doesn’t retrospection add ambiguity, even to conversations that didn’t have a language barrier? Aren’t we in the habit of corralling observations into metaphors, even when we aren’t trying to discover the rhythm of a foreign place? Don’t we simplify un-mined personalities of even the people we know until they’re stock characters for our unwritten autobiographies...
...digicams. "Video has shown us there's room for more than one camera in anyone's house," says Gary Pageau, publisher of PMA, an international photography and imaging trade association. "Consumers won't want every picture to be 3-D, but if the results are good enough, they can add it to the pictures they are already taking." Fujifilm could certainly benefit from the extra dimension...
...always work (otherwise Mitt Romney would be in the White House) but it does mean that it's not surprising that two of the foreign leaders who have most made an impression in the U.S. are the young Tony Blair and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. (And Sarkozy--to add to the JFK meme--has the extra advantage of a fashion-plate wife...
...electric bill the equivalent of 2 kilowatts per month. Most e-car owners will eventually want to plug in their faster, highway-approved EVs into new rapid-charging, 220-volt garage chargers. But that requires another step: finding a certified electrician and several thousand more dollars to install the add-on feature to the home or garage...
...tough to envision that type of thing happening here, [if only] because we have so much land compared to South Korea. They value every square inch because they have to. But it's certainly possible that somebody could one day hatch a plan to add developed land to, say, Manhattan or the San Francisco peninsula...