Word: brightness
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...Laptop Per Child (OLPC), who believes it lies in a tiny green and white computer. Nicholas P. Negroponte, who spoke to a captive audience in the Science Center last night, explained his idea: using technology to revolutionize education in the developing world. The basic laptop, characterized by its bright yellow hand crank and once described as “enchanting” by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, was developed by OLPC and is being distributed to school-age children in the world’s 50 poorest countries. The OLPC laptop, which is marketed to international buyers...
...realized I was wearing the exact “grays, blacks, and browns” they had mentioned. As I joined their group picture on the steps of Widener, I found myself holding my two fingers up and feeling very out of place among the mixing and matching of bright colors around me. “A duckling leading other ducklings,” my friend remarked after seeing me guiding the group of girls around campus. Well, in that case, I was feeling very much like the ugly duckling in a flock of Technicolor birds. Even their electronic dictionaries...
That's bad news for retailers, which traditionally get up to 40% of their annual revenue from holiday shopping. Still, there are some bright spots. The Internet should outdo the sidewalk: online retail sales this holiday season are expected to grow 12% over last year, to $44 billion, predicts Forrester Research. And discount chains like TJ Maxx, Wal-Mart, Costco and BJ's Wholesale Club should see strong sales as they hammer away at prices. BJ's third-quarter merchandise comparable sales were up 7% vs. 2007's. "Our position is serving us well in this economic environment," says Laura...
...alum from the 70s recently explained, “Let’s just say things were a lot looser before AIDS.” I’ll leave it at that. Drinking Age Changed to 21 (1984) This was undeniably devastating, but there is a bright side: it makes the really old freshmen seem popular instead of just really creepy. World Wide Web (1991) The arrival of the Internet Age provides relief for blue-balled males (and females?) on Friday nights. Lorena Bobbatt Trial (1993) Remember when that crazy lady castrated her husband? Guys locked themselves in their...
...some themes, it appears, are eternal. We curled up together this weekend, my daughter and I, as I read Twilight for the first time, she for the third. It's not 19th century London, but the modern Pacific Northwest is appropriately misty. Here we meet the bright, chaste, passionate heroine Bella and the dark, mysterious and certainly dangerous hero Edward, son of a vampire family that has sworn off human blood but still struggles with the temptation. He has a way of appearing when she's in danger, scooping her into his unnaturally strong arms and carrying her to safety...