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Smith wore earplugs to block the grinding sound of the MRI and clutched a shutoff button in case the heat got too intense. She never used it. She felt only a little back pain from lying still for so long. Afterward, she "felt immediate relief from the heaviness," she says. "I was amazed." She's symptom free 15 months later...
Digital cameras today have large preview screens. Gone are those hard-to-use tiny buttons and dials and those confusing icons. Replacing them are touch-control screens with plain-English menus. Even sophisticated digital cameras offer a "no brains" mode; the only things you need do are frame the shot and push the button. David Henderson, 62, of Alexandria, Va., remembers his early digital cameras. "They gave you a picture that looked like it was taken off a television set," he recalls. "Today's cameras are so good, they give anybody a chance to be a darn good photographer...
...CampusTap aims to create an online community that “is a virtual mirror of your physical campus,” according to the site’s mission statement. The interface networks multiple blogs by name and keyword tags, and the “Blogcrastinate” button simply “takes you to a random-ass blog,” says Harry I. Ritter ’07, one of CampusTap’s founders (and also a member of the Crimson editorial board). With free registration to anyone with a Harvard e-mail address...
WHAT ABOUT FRAUD? Kate Spade has hired 13 law-school students to sit in front of a computer all day scouring for fakes. When they find one, they shut down the auction with the push of a button. Also, drop shops add a layer of accountability because now there's a real business you can look to if what you get is not what you ordered. You're no longer dealing with a stranger on the other...
...also hit plenty of nerves, in its collision of races and classes, and Hollywood loves issue movies that push the hot button. But what about Brokeback? Didn?t that film pioneer man-love in a pup tent? Sure, but homosexuality is just not an issue in Hollywood. The town was gay before gay was cool (that would be the summer of 2003, when Queer Eye for the Straight Guy became a brief TV sensation). Indeed, homosexual roles are prize-winning plums for actors-like Hoffman in Capote -as long as they aren?t gay, or, if they...