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...What's more, the FCC rules that the quiz-show scandals produced were meant to restore a compact of trust between the public and broadcasters. But that leaky raft sailed long ago. In fact, polls show that most viewers already assumed that "Survivor" was fixed. Viewers today are better aware of the Heisenberg effect than your average sociology professor a generation ago; not only do they believe that the shows are set up and edited for dramatic TV - viewing between the lines is part of the sport of watching. Rules are rules, of course, but if Survivorgate ends up disillusioning...
Erika T. Rhone '01 of the Callbacks has been nominated for Best Mixed-Group Soloist for her performances of "The Roof" and "Turn Back Time" on the group's latest compact disc "Don't Look Down." And the Krokodiloes' 2000 CD "Black Tie Affair" has been nominated for the Best Male-Group Album...
...produced nice text but poor images, both of which it expelled at a turtle trot. The Canon S400 took 20 to 30 sec. to warm up each time I changed a setting, then produced mostly mediocre text and graphics. And as much as I liked the simple setup and compact design of the Lexmark, its overall quality and speed were too inconsistent to push it into the winner's circle...
...aback, though, by experiments announced in Cambridge, Mass., last week: two teams of scientists have slowed light to a dead stop. The achievements, to be reported in this week's issue of Nature and next week's Physical Review Letters, could one day lead to a new generation of compact, superfast computers that operate by light, not electricity...
Researchers looked at x-ray novae, which are pairs of stars that rotate quickly and very close to each other. One of the stars in an x-ray nova is a normal star, like the sun, and the other one is a dense, compact star...