Word: chipping
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...Spiegelman will also be appearing on bookshelves again. He has two new projects coming out in the next months. "Jack Cole and Plastic Man," co-written with Chip Kidd, will be a softcover published by Chronicle books in September. It reprints the essay Spiegelman wrote about Cole and his creation for the New Yorker, but will be "profusely, wildly, insanely illustrated," according to Kidd...
...noteworthy collections of daily strips, one old and one new, appear this fall. "Peanuts: The Art of Charles Schulz" (Pantheon), a softcover edited by Chip Kidd that appears in October, reprints 500 of Schulz's cartoons along with sketchbooks and never-before-published material from his archives. Maybe this book will explain how the word "genius" applies to that crudely-drawn dwarf's repetitious bumblings...
...Also on Tuesday, more goat entrails from the chip sector, with the trade group Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (yes, that spells SEMI) announces its July book-to-bill ratio. Watch Intel (whose expected 54-percent price cut on is high-end chips is due on Sunday) and AMD for meaning; analyst sentiment on the sector remains mixed...
Langer has also pioneered remote-control systems in which the rate at which the drug is released can be varied using ultrasound, electric pulses and even magnetic fields. This team has recently developed the prototype of an implantable "pharmacy-on-a-chip" that they hope someday will not only monitor a patient's blood chemistry but also prescribe a carefully measured dose of the proper medicine precisely when it's needed...
...when he was eight, his parents divorced. After he nearly failed the fifth grade, his mother moved swiftly to intervene. She sharply restricted television viewing time for him and his older brother Curtis and required them to submit weekly reports on books they had read (Carson's first: Chip the Dam Builder). It wasn't until years later that the brothers learned that their mother, who left school after third grade, could barely read what they wrote...