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...font? For some designers, it's an issue of propriety - Verdana, which was invented by Microsoft, was intended to be used on a screen, not on paper. "It has open, wide letterforms with lots of space between characters to aid legibility at small sizes on screen," explains Simon l'Anson, creative director at Made by Many, a London-based digital-consulting company. "It doesn't exhibit any elegance or visual rhythm when set at large sizes. It's like taking the family sedan off-road. It will sort of work, but ultimately gets bogged down." (See pictures of Microsoft...
...Hong Kong's democrats were also running without two of their most stalwart figures. Martin Lee, founder of Hong Kong's Democratic Party, and Anson Chan, a popular former top civil servant, both declined to run for reelection in order to make way for a younger generation of democrats. According to City University's Sung, their absence may have contributed to the depressed voter turnout. "I think after the election, pan-democrats have to think why turnout was lower than the expected," says Sung of the democrats' current disunity. "People are unhappy because there are too many small mountains...
...result of this election indicates that Hong Kong people are anxious to put forward democracy.' ANSON CHAN, pro-democracy Hong Kong politician, on winning a legislative seat over her Beijing-backed opponent in a Dec. 2 by-election...
...reformers may have arrested their slide into irrelevance with yesterday's victory by Anson Chan, a widely known ex-civil servant who has refashioned herself as a champion of universal suffrage. According to returns reported Monday, Chan won about 55% of the vote in a by-election to replace Ma Lik, a prominent pro-Beijing legislator who died in August...
...tends to evoke macho images when you're talking about sports: hulking football players flying across the field, crushing their heads into one another's helmets, lucky if they can count their fingers by the end of the game. But brain pain doesn't affect just boys. Ask Christin Anson, a high school junior from Lancaster, Ohio. During a soccer game her freshman year, an opposing player kicked her square in the back of the head. She shook it off and even finished the game. "I just thought I'd have a headache for a day or two," Anson...