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...video-game hardware at all: a short, stubby, wireless wand that resembles nothing so much as a TV remote control. Humble as it looks on the outside, it's packed full of gadgetry: it's part laser pointer and part motion sensor, so it knows where you're aiming it, when and how fast you move it and how far it is from the TV screen. There's a strong whiff of voodoo about it. If you want your character on the screen to swing a sword, you just swing the controller. If you want to aim your...
...distance of 100 m or more-and do it over and over again-demands things of you, and gives things to you. You have to align yourself not just with the gun and the target but with your surroundings: light must be taken into account (people tend to aim lower in dim light), temperature (on a hot day the bullet flies faster and higher), and wind. "Three minutes," says Ian, an Army weapons instructor turned lawyer. He means that to counter today's stiff easterly, he'll move his horizontal sight three-60ths of a degree to the left. Shooting...
...shooter over a non-shooter. A good shooter is responsible, he's careful. He thinks about what he's doing, and when it's over he thinks about how to do it better." Says Alan, a teacher: "The art on the range, on the job, in life, is to aim and to hit exactly the target, the one target, the only target, dead center, with one round." Clearly, I have a lot of practicing to do. But shooting has taught me that while to err may be human, to aim true is almost divine...
...Aesopic moral to this story might be: Canadians are at their best when they’re in Canada. Or to put it broadly: if your real aim is charity, endeavor to make a difference where you best can, where others may not have looked, where your efforts will not go to waste...
...implement secondary fields a month ago.Secondary fields will not appear on diplomas but will appear on transcripts, according to Assistant Dean of Harvard College Stephanie H. Kenen.Some graduate programs—which are not available as undergraduate concentrations—will also propose secondary fields for undergraduates.Seventeen concentrations aim to have secondary field proposals ready for EPC approval sometime this fall, including Astronomy, The Classics, English and American Literature and Language, Environmental Science and Public Policy, Folklore and Mythology, Government, History, History of Art and Architecture, Linguistics, Mathematics, Music, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Philosophy, Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Sociology, Statistics...