Word: circularity
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...giftable items." Vincent points to Target, which on Black Friday will be selling $3 coffeemakers, toasters and sandwichmakers. Not exactly stuff that tugs at the heartstrings on Christmas morning, but hey, it's the thought that counts (and if the toast is crispy, even better). In its Black Friday circular, Kohl's blankets shoppers with 50%-60% discounts for watches and jewelry. Some items are priced...
...week I would buy only stuff that was on sale. My first mistake was getting my lovely wife Cassandra to join me. The speed with which she both agreed and went to her computer should have clued me in to the fact that while I envisioned coupon-clipping and circular-reading, she saw the doors swing open to a World Wide Web of crap. Did you know there's an amber teething necklace that the baby doesn't actually put in his mouth but that works by releasing soothing warmth? And would you believe that it's easy to find...
When introduced recently to students in a cafeteria at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the ring-shaped contraption immediately drew curious onlookers. "It's clearly a fan," said engineering student Sergei Bernstein, 18, placing his palm before the draft of cool air flowing from the circular frame. "But it looks completely different, very modern," said his friend John Berman...
...graceful ring set atop a cylindrical base. In essence, the device works like a vacuum cleaner in reverse. The motor in the base of the fan sucks in air and pushes it up into the ring. The air rushes out of tiny, millimeter-long slots that run along the circular frame and flows down a gently sloping ramp. As the air emerges from the ramp, it creates a circular low-pressure region that pulls in the air from behind - creating a fairly uniform flow of air through the ring. (See the 25 best back-to-school gadgets...
...setting was simple, consisting of an outdoor porch with two circular banisters on each side of the stage. However, these banisters seemed to hinder the performance more than they helped. Often times during a dialogue, one of the characters would lean on a banister and look at the audience as they spoke instead of at the character with whom they were talking. Often this device was distracting, and it seemed like the banister acted as a crutch for the actors to not have to look at each other at meaningful points in the dialogue, taking away from what could have...