Word: appeareance
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...feat was accomplished with a 3-D green-screen digital-composite technique that's been in use for years. Some 40 high-definition cameras arranged in a circle filmed Yellin at the same time against a 360-degree green background; the images were overlaid to make Yellin appear three-dimensional, and the reporter was then digitally pasted into the frame next to Blitzer. Specialized software was used to make sure her image lined up with the movement and angles of the cameras in CNN's election-center studio. The technology (and money) to create freestanding, three-dimensional, real-time holograms...
...Paranoid delusions, feelings of persecution and the belief that someone is out to get you appear to be unique to the 20th century. "The trend is primarily ascribed to urbanization, industrialization and technical developments with much new information and communication transfer, exerting considerable 'cultural pressure' on an individual," the researchers write. An increasing sense of individualism might add to the problem - the 1970s weren't called "The Me Decade" for nothing. The repression of political dissidents by Yugoslavia's communist regime probably didn't help either...
...Board for action are given access to everything that the Board sees and are asked to prepare a written response that is circulated with the other material to Board members. In cases where the student might be subject to official disciplinary action, the student has the opportunity to appear before the Board, make statements, and answer any questions Board members might have. This gives the students a voice in the process and lets them participate and defend themselves in their actions...
...each candidate had won—the Obama cut-out posed for substantially more photo ops over the course of the evening. Before the results had even begun to trickle in, CNN attracted viewers’ attention by showcasing a new technology that allowed a reporter in Chicago to appear as a hologram in the network’s New York studio. In a smaller room off to the side of the Forum, members of the Harvard Republican Club gathered to watch the results in the company of other conservatives. Republican Club president Colin J. Motley...
...appeal to religious voters. Republican strategists knew that undecided religious voters broke heavily for George W. Bush in the last weeks of the 2004 campaign, and they hoped Palin's candidacy would sway those voters to the GOP again this year. Instead, those late deciders - including white Evangelicals - appear to have split between Obama and McCain...