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Residents of Sao Paolo do amazing things in their cars. They shave. They apply their makeup. They chat up the girl or guy in the neighboring car and make dates. They read. They learn foreign languages. They watch DVDs. Paulistas do all these things because they have no choice; the city's crippling traffic problem forces them to spend a major proportion of their lives inching their way through gridlock...
...away. But these shifts are often too small to accurately measure. “You could find Jupiters but you couldn’t find Earths,” said Ronald L. Walsworth, a senior physics lecturer who helped lead the project. “We had a great car but it was missing a tire.” Calibrated to an atomic clock—“the best measuring device man has in his quiver,” according to collaborator Andrew H. Szentgyorgyi—the astro-comb’s laser emits pulses every...
This overabundance of production capacity means China's export machine is like a race car with no brakes. As long as the road remains smooth and straight, the car roars ahead. But throw in some potholes and a tight turn, and the wheels come off. Factories have been able to increase output in recent years because the global economy has been on a tear. The 2004-07 period saw the second strongest bout of global growth on record--which translated into strong demand for cheap Chinese-made products. But this era may be ending. Most economists are forecasting a significant...
...opening credits, the close-ups on a blueberry pie not only emphasize the film’s title but also show a thoughtful appreciation for the appealing colors and contrasts created by the mixture of berries, crust, and cream. Wong even creates visual appeal in the remains of a car crash, revealing the dead man’s face through a frame of shattered glass glittering beneath rain and streetlight. Wong also creatively uses motion, both with the camera and the actions on-screen, to set the tone of each scene. A shaky and restless camera introduces the bartender Jeremy...
...years of relationships ending with me being dumped and some woman driving off in a car, like, wildly excited to be free,” said Jason Segel, star of the upcoming movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” in an interview with The Crimson. For Segel, the pathetic break-up that serves as the background of “Forgetting” is an example of art imitating life.“I got dumped while I was naked once, which is why the naked break-up is in the movie, and I thought that...