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...duff and exercising. It was courageous of Time to point out our laziness and make the connection between obesity and our passion for convenience. Being healthy takes more than putting down the feed bag. It means getting off the couch and engaging in forward motion. Gee, what a novel concept! James C. Nill Detroit Tackling Terrorism Re Time's reporting on the manhunt for and arrest of London's suspected suicide bombers [Aug. 8]: I am a British Asian who has lived in the U.K. for most of my life. I am as proud of this country and its value...
...Alzheimer's. The concept isn't just high, it's stratospheric. If Belgium were Hollywood, The Memory of a Killer would be ubiquitous. Instead you're going to have to search for this extraordinary movie in a theater that is probably nowhere near you. Please do so. It is, without question, the best crime movie of the year--and one of the best movies of any sort now playing...
Chaitin's idea centers on a number he calls omega, which he discovered in 1975 and which is much too complicated to explain here. (Chaitin's book Meta Math! The Quest for Omega, out this month, should help make omega clear.) Suffice it to say that the concept broadens two major discoveries of 20th century math: Gödel's incompleteness theorem, which says there will always be unprovable statements in any system of math, and Turing's halting problem, which says it's impossible to predict in advance whether a particular computer calculation can ever be finished...
Archos' current motto is "On The Go" but it should be "For Tech's Sake." Everything the French firm creates seems to be more proof of concept than mass market gadget. It was among the first to launch a hard-drive based MP3 player, and it beat everyone to market with portable video. Now it promises a mobile digital video recorder, that is, a TiVo-and TV-that you can unplug and take with...
...involved. "But there are no cars,'' he said. Need I mention that his back-to-school outfit has not crossed his mind? (In fact, I'm pretty sure that as someone who doesn't even glance in the mirror after a haircut, he's not familiar with the concept of a back-to-school outfit...