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...Researcher A.J. Brush's team attracted attention for LINC, a demo of a digital calendar aimed at families who, what else, frantically multitask. Operated with a sleek stylus pen, LINC looks like and is as easy to use as a paper calendar that hangs on most kitchen walls, crammed with daily to-do lists and annotated with scribbled margin notes, asteriks and arrows. It's designed for use in the kitchen, but the data is downloadable to everyone?s cell phone as well as their work, school and home computers. The idea is to keep the entries legible while keeping...
...immediately arrange a trip. She draws in black and white, which may seem like an odd choice for a novel set in "colorful" Mexico, but it suits the book's theme of cultural contrasts, to say nothing of how black and white emphasizes Abel's facility with a brush. She combines richness of detail with simplicity of arrangement into understated chiaroscuro effects that are as easy to read as they are comely to look...
...Boston’s Freedom Trail. While Barrios said he thinks Republican candidate and current Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey ’82 will distance herself from current governor Republican Mitt Romney, he said Democrats “will try to paint Kerry Healey and Romney with the same brush.” Barrios, who led a gay rights group when he was at Harvard, also criticized the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Solomon Amendment, which forces universities either to grant the military equal access to recruit on campus or to forgo federal funds. Barrios said that...
...events surrounding the opening of his latest, Del Posto. Situated in the ridiculously trendy Meatpacking District, Del Posto occupies one of the grandest restaurant spaces in the city, where even four-star places usually use opulence to hide their cramped dimensions (expensive, feathery Riedel wine goblets break if you brush them with a fingernail, but they do keep one's focus on the table...
...honest and free of patchouli-scented obscurities. To read about her struggles with a 182-verse Sanskrit chant, or her (successful) attempt to meditate while being feasted on by mosquitoes, is to come about as close as you can to enlightenment-by-proxy. She even has an ecstatic brush with Nirvana, which leaves her with a comforting insight into heaven: "You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here...