Word: brightnesses
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...years ago, Jobs sicced his wrecking crew of designers and engineers on the cell phone as we know--and hate-- it. They began by melting the face off a video iPod. No clickwheel, no keypad. They sheared off the entire front and replaced it with a huge, bright, vivid screen--that touch screen Jobs got so excited about a few paragraphs ago. When you need to dial, it shows you a keypad; when you need other buttons, the screen serves them up. When you want to watch a video, the buttons disappear. Suddenly, the interface isn't fixed and rigid...
...Apple's operating system, OS X, so that the phone could handle real, nontoy applications like Web browsers and e-mail clients. They put in a cell antenna and two more antennas for wi-fi and Bluetooth, plus a bunch of sensors, so that the phone knows how bright its screen should be and whether it should display vertically or horizontally, and when it should turn off the touch screen so that you don't accidentally operate it with your...
...food--especially mushy stuff like the no-bean hummus and the pecan crumble--had a biting, rough quality. But some of it--like the mandoline-thin zucchini that served as pasta in the vegetable lasagna or the marinated shiitake sandwich made with thin layers of dehydrated soft crackers--was bright, fresh and fun. For dinner one night at a raw-food restaurant in L.A. I had clever little vegetable "pizzas" and a bowl of squash shaved into a linguine shape, bathed in curry and topped with vegetables. It turns out there are a lot of ways to eat a salad...
...leading goal-scorer.But before they sit down with their pencils and blue books, they’ll have to square off on the blue lines, when No. 4 Dartmouth (14-3-1, 12-1-0 ECAC) visits the No. 5 Crimson (14-3-1, 11-2-0) at Bright Hockey Center tonight at 7 p.m. “Dartmouth doesn’t care if we have exams,” said Harvard head coach Katey Stone earlier in the week. “Everyone knows that they are expected to get their work done early and to be prepared...
...there a bright spot for Australian tennis...