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...addition, MIT raised its PILOT to $1.5 million this year—a 20 percent increase—and agreed to adjust its payments by 2.5 percent annually...
...argue with a fashion trend that actually listens to women? Finally, we can sit down without worrying about flashing the entire room, or resorting to what one high-schooler termed the “wiggle dance” to adjust short skirts. Picking things up from the floor no longer requires strange and impossible body contortions to avoid indecent exposure...
...phone looking worn out? Camera not as slender as it once seemed? No worries. This year's best gadgets can meet your every need, from photo prints that don't smudge to MP3-player cases that let you listen to music underwater. How about home-theater systems that automatically adjust the sound of their speakers? Or a camcorder that doesn't use tapes or DVDs? Out with the old and in with the new has never been so exciting. Over the next 10 pages, TIME showcases some of the coolest products on the market. Will technological wonders never cease...
...haven't yet jumped into surround sound--that is, bedecked your TV room with at least five speakers and a subwoofer--you have two sweet new options that include DVD player and speakers. Yamaha's affordable CinemaStation DVX-S650 home theater ($650; yamaha.com/yec can adjust the relative settings of each speaker by "listening" to the room with its special microphone. Not sure you want all those speakers? Denon doesn't blame you. Its D-M51DVS ($800; usa.denon.com creates seemingly real surround sound using only two speakers and, of course...
...soldiers who return from Iraq missing a leg from the thigh down are getting back on their feet a lot faster these days, thanks to the Rheo Knee. The new prosthetic joint, developed in Iceland, is designed to learn the nuances of an individual's movements and adjust itself. An innovative control module--made up of sensors, a computer chip and software--reacts instantaneously to changes in the wearer's gait, so there's less strain on the hips and back...