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...means in this context is that anyone who wants to can look at the code that makes Firefox tick, a set-up which allows an enormous community of dedicated programmers to look out for bugs and security holes and generally keep things honest. Combine this key fact with clever features like an effective pop-up blocker, and you’ll find Firefox will continue to be well protected for quite some time...
Reid's position on abortion is both honorable and clever. These are formidable qualities in a legislative minority leader. The willingness--and toughness--to read aloud, in public, long, long passages about life in Searchlight won't hurt, either...
...search continues for other cognitive skills that might be linked to sleep. In January, Jan Born and his colleagues at the University of Lübeck in Germany published a clever study that shows why sleeping on a problem often brings such good results. They asked 106 test subjects to transform a string of numbers into a different string of numbers, using a simple but tedious mathematical equation. Unbeknownst to the study volunteers, there was a hidden trick to the calculations that could cut their response time dramatically. A good night's sleep between practice sessions more than doubled--from...
...best filmmakers of our time: the balance of comedy and drama here is no small feat. But the real achievement is the writing. With prosaic gems ranging from sweet (“they should name a gender after you”) to damned clever (“lately your low self-esteem is just good common sense”), Brooks is almost guaranteed a best original screenwriting nod come Oscar time. Oddly, he’s able to do this in with one of those heart-warming, uplifting movies that could easily replace your favorite sitcom one week...
...good job of ripping off the music it tries to copy. Stefani wants to be the next Madonna with her sex-obsessed lyrics and electronic synth beats, but she loses the thing that got No Doubt its fans and made Stefani famous: her innocent-yet-knowing sexiness and clever lyrics. It’s a sellout as disappointing as Jewel’s or Liz Phair’s, and far less pleasant...