Word: buttoned
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...transmission; a radiowave-powered switch that can wirelessly control small devices such as locators or sensors. Goggin, a semi-finalist for the History Channel's annual Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge this year, says state officials could get data from the sensors directly at the push of a button and a radio signal would act as a transmitter, putting the bridge's sensor information into an e-mail sent straight to their inbox. "You wouldn't need helicopters or lights for solar power. That's just crazy and costly," Goggin says. "This would be a permanent part of the bridge...
...prevent it, Team Damongrass will collaborate later this year on a project that calls for more brain than brawn: Imperial Life in the Emerald City, based on the book by the Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran about the chaos in U.S.-occupied Iraq. The hot-button political subject suits the preppy New Englander, 36, and scruffy Brit, 51, whose commitment to residing in the uncomfortable world of real life is reflected in a Bourne Ultimatum scene with a black-hooded CIA prisoner that is obviously intended to conjure up the snapshots from Abu Ghraib...
...wonder Farhad agreed to go to Jalalabad to kill a fellow Muslim. Still, wasn't there a doubt in his mind about taking his life like that and who knows how many others? No. The Taliban had told him that when he pushed the button on his suicide vest, it was Allah then who would decide whether to summon him to heaven...
...symbolic weight of this decision may actually be heavier than the practical effect. Church progressives, and indeed some conservatives, are asking why Benedict went out of his way to reopen a hot-button issue that, for the vast majority of Catholics, has long been settled. With traditionalists emboldened and progressives feeling under siege, the Church hierarchy and local bishops may wind up caught in the crossfire. Still, on a more substantive level, Benedict's real long-term objective may be a sort of "counter-reform" of the alternative practices of the new Mass rather than a widespread return...
...considerably behind in that category. Disraeli, a Jew, was British Prime Minister in the 19th century. But President of the United States is something else again. Other countries--let me see now--well, other countries don't invest their head of government with the power to push a button and destroy the world, do they? Only in America. What a country. So let's give ourselves a pat on the back...