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...were really so. Instead, he says, as devices evolve, people wind up befuddled and annoyed. The culprit: bad design, a longtime target of the Northwestern University professor. In his seminal 1990 book, The Design of Everyday Things, Norman explained why, for example, people so often switch on the wrong burner of an oven range--in a person's mind, a straight row of control knobs doesn't logically map onto a square stove...
...worn out,” she wrote. “I’d put academics on the back burner, and I wanted to reclaim what was left of my time at Harvard to focus on academics... it wasn’t hard to walk away from the UC, because I wanted my life back...
...such a move ignores the real problem: the hatred that motivates a person to use such an image. Outlawing the noose may allow New Yorker legislators to feel as if they have dealt a mortal blow to racism, but in reality they have merely put it on the back burner. Our country cannot overcome racism by passing meaningless laws, only by encouraging dialog and cooperation across racial lines. Still, the most frightening consequence of this bill is the idea that the government can dictate to us which of our views are appropriate. In this case, New Yorkers haven?...
...humanitarian causes in different regions of the world. Activists say their main task is to urge international policy makers to acknowledge the crisis in Uganda. “Society triages situations, and this crisis has been going on for so long that it got put on the back burner,” said HCCUP President Robert J. Ross ’09, who organized the screening. “It is seen more as a national issue, a small rebel movement that Uganda can deal with on its own,” said Ross, who is also HHRA?...
...named Troy Tulowitzki (a possible Rookie of the Year at shortstop), Brad Hawpe, Jeff Francis (a 17-9 regular-season pitcher), Garrett Atkins and Matt Holliday (the probable NL MVP), who can still stroll unrecognized down Denver's 16th Street Mall. Then there are the older hands: Helton, speed burner Willie Taveras, Yorvit Torrealba and Kazuo Matsui (of Tokyo by way of New York City, cast off by the Mets...