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Over time, the experiment's sleep-restricted subjects became so impaired that they had difficulty concentrating on even the simplest tasks, like pushing a button in response to a light. "The human brain is only capable of about 16 hours of wakefulness [a day]," says Dinges. "When you get beyond that, it can't function as efficiently, as accurately or as well...
...Start tapping in the name of a contact, and within seconds you make your call, right from the screen. Sweeter still is the Photo Speed Dial feature: line up the mugs of your beloveds right on the Today screen, to tap at will. There's also a fully customizable button-style speed dial...
...loading up the songs that I noticed a funny interface design flaw: Every so often, instead of an X in the upper right hand corner, you see an "OK" which is essentially the same thing: click it and you close your window. There's even an "OK" button on the Treo, which closes whatever you're in, whether or not there's an "OK" to be clicked. This is the problem. As I was choosing songs to use as ringtones, I kept hitting "OK" and nothing happened. After several tries, I noticed that there was a "Select" option...
...Julia Child and Hollywood star Marlene Dietrich, and offer a glimpse of espionage in biblical times. Donaldson saw items ranging from a 1777 letter by George Washington authorizing a network of spies in New York City to a latter-day camera so tiny that it is concealed in a button. "I grew up in the cold war, where we sat under our desks in school during drills and hoped that we wouldn't be bombed," she says. "The Spy Museum brought that time in my life back to me in full, living color." Visitors can live out their Mission: Impossible...
...certainly not exempt from these criticisms. Several times have I taken advantage of the Life Sciences archives so I could indulge my somnolent nature—and missing out on the potential for a $20 bill barely crosses my mind as I reach for the snooze button. If the administrators of this course want to incentivize promptness in the future, they should abolish the electronic safety net and let the natural consequences of academic negligence—namely, poor test scores—speak for themselves...