Word: appeareance
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...someone who has tested many portable navigators, I first noticed the clarity and crispness of the screen - not just the LCD panel but the graphics that appeared on it. Sony appears to have paid a higher degree of attention to the graphical user interface than any of its competitors. Given a few minutes to acclimate myself with the device, I soon learned how to input destinations or find points of interest. I especially liked the fact that I could search by zip code as well - you don?t have to know a zip code...
...Another funny thing was that when you set the screen view to the 3D driver?s perspective, the names of roads don?t appear. Sony personnel acknowledged this, but didn?t seem to realize how useful it can be to read the names of roads, even when you?re not actively seeking turn-by-turn directions...
Then, Gossage's rants were mostly entertaining; now they appear to be the mark of a middle-aged man who may be clinging too closely to the past. "The saddest thing to me," says ESPN commentator Skip Bayless (who has called Gossage a "throw-hard blowhard"), is "the ex-athlete who can't let go." Gossage's rank dismissal of the talent ("The pitchers can't pitch") and fortitude ("The game is getting really soft") of today's players, as well as the character of younger baseball writers ("They don't have any respect for the game"), is destructive nostalgia...
DIED. BUCK OWENS, 76, singer of more than 20 No. 1 country hits and longtime co-host of the hayseed variety show Hee Haw; in Los Angeles. Although 16 years in Hee Haw's Kornfield Kounty made Owens appear part of the Nashville establishment, his music career was spent in defiance of what he considered country music's slick, string-heavy arrangements. As a popularizer of the Bakersfield sound, named for the California town that was a destination for Dust Bowl refugees like himself, Owens used honky-tonk vocals and rock-'n'-roll guitars to add edge to his songs...
...that lawmakers have begun to make the trip to Ft. Meade, Md., to be briefed on the National Seucrity Agency's terrorist surveillance program, it looks increasingly clear that Democrats at least aren't going to argue for its elimination. Like the Republicans, they appear much more interested in finding a way to legalize...