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UCITA validates holding back the terms of a deal until after a customer has paid, making clicking through legal terms while installing software or accessing content a legally airtight form of assent. Furthermore, it allows software, access and content companies to write their own intellectual property law, using "licenses" rather than sales to, for example, eliminate rights to transfer a copy or to develop products that work with other products...
Design mentality permeates Natural Capitalism, the new book co-authored by Amory, Hunter and Paul Hawken. It also energizes the Lovinses' headquarters in the Rockies. Made of thick stone slabs, it is so airtight that the sun's rays entering big windows during the day keep the temperature cozy even on the coldest winter nights. The abundant sunlight almost eliminates the need for daytime artificial lighting, stimulates solar panels to make electricity, keeps the house supplied with hot water and shines on a sort of tropical forest in an atrium with a waterfall and fishponds. Getting the most...
...speculate that since Kennedy initially reported the incident on an informal basis - she apparently tried to do the decent thing by not making a fuss - it's possible the higher-ups in charge of issuing appointments never heard about the alleged transgression. Of course, even if their alibi is airtight, there is a general recognition that the Army, as well as Kennedy and Smith, are looking at a rough ride as these accusations play out in the national press. "Now that Kennedy's charges have gone public, it's going to be tough to handle it quietly," says TIME Washington...
...coverage was airtight on the first two downs. Collar had to throw the ball away on first down but couldn't elude the rush on second and was sacked for a seven-yard loss...
...student and professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and later at Clark, Goddard tried to figure out just how. Fooling around with the arithmetic of propulsion, he calculated the energy-to-weight ratio of various fuels. Fooling around with airtight chambers, he found that a rocket could indeed fly in a vacuum, thanks to Newton's laws of action and reaction. Fooling around with basic chemistry, he learned, most important, that if he hoped to launch a missile very far, he could never do it with the poor black powder that had long been the stuff of rocketry. Instead, he would...