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Sean Palfrey said he thought the Adams e-mail list, the Schmooze, had been notably silent on war in Iraq, in contrast to spirited debates last year on issues of public policy like President Bush’s economic stimulus package...
...Hirschfeld's lines had snap and swing - movement, like a jump-rope at top speed. Millions of lines over 80 years, and not one had an inappropriate stroke. There was drama in the contrast of those black lines on a white page - a bit less when it was reprinted on the Times' gray newsprint. Which is why you should look at his work in book form: the handsomely illustrated autobiography "Hirschfeld On Line," or, for about the price of a manicure, the Gotham-glorifying "Hirschfeld's New York" and the all-movie "Hirschfeld's Hollywood...
While Steen did not give specific figures on Harvard, he said that at Cornell University, which has similar network traffic, 90 percent of users transferred less then two gigabytes a month on the network. By contrast, a single movie of good quality is about one to three gigabytes, he said...
...Bush, by contrast, has learned to stand oblique to the current of public opinion on the environment, allowing criticism to slide off his back. His lieutenants in Interior, Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have quietly focused on the regulatory route, using administrative guidance and legal loopholes to achieve what Gingrich could not obtain in the full glare of the legislative process. "They are rejecting the full-frontal-assault approach that gets a lot of media attention in favor of death by a thousand strokes of the pen," contends Stoermer. The Republicans are also learning how to spin environmental...
Digital displays have been fastened to everything from curling irons to space heaters--with mixed results. We found the LCD screen on Rival's prototype Recipe Smart-Pot (a high-tech Crock-Pot with 200 built-in recipes) too small to scan entire recipes at a glance. By contrast, the $100 Electronic Weight Control System from Concord Technologies was handy and easy on the eyes; the bathroom scale stores the weights of a family of four for as long as a year and comes with a wireless remote that you can attach to the wall at eye level...