Word: cautions
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...that reads words aloud from a typewritten page. The Quicktionary Reading Pen from Seiko Instruments reads both words and their definitions and fits in your pocket, but it can handle only one word at a time and demands a deft hand for precise scanning. Experts applaud the concept but caution that, like other technologies that counter dyslexia, it's no cure. At $275, it's no bargain either...
Initial support gave way to caution, though, and to doubts about whether to even put it to a vote among team owners this week. Some owners fretted about game delays (as if officials don't already huddle like zebras at a watering hole); technological complexities; and when to allow challenges, by whom and how often...
...resistance is futile. Visitors should also be prepared for severe infringements on privacy. Unlike in our native land, where citizens have a right to avoid interrogation without a lawyer present, interrogation at Home by a local or tribal chieftain is not considered at all invasive. Visitors should proceed with caution...
...appalled to read the comments made by men's indoor track co-captain Joe Ciollo after Harvard's convincing 118-26 defeat of Boston College (Sports, Dec. 7). I would have hoped that Ciollo would have let his team's performance speak for itself; unfortunately he exercised no such caution...
...traditionally a hallmark of Disney-style cartoon craftsmanship. The film lacks creative exuberance, any side pockets of joy. All those evangelists and rabbis who were consulted during the picture's gestation must have weighed like a rock on the filmmakers' impulse to soar. Artistic care gives way to religious caution, and the picture sometimes looks starched, stodgy. Except for the When You Believe anthem, Stephen Schwartz's tunes mostly bring not buoyancy but ballast to the proceedings. While Jeff Goldblum is good as a fretful Aaron, the rest of an exemplary vocal cast (Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Patrick Stewart...