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...tool. I couldn't totally test it because it happens on the fly, but I never saw red-eye during my test shooting. The D-Lighting feature brightens shots. This is an optional measure, one whose results you can preview before agreeing to do it. There's also a crop tool right on the camera. When reviewing a shot, zoom in to where you'd prefer it be bordered, then press down on the shutter. The camera will ask you to confirm the crop, then save it with a new number, leaving the full image intact on your memory card...
...relaxing during downtime, only Greg retains the vigilant intensity of a soldier. Tom and Kristen switch more readily into civilian languor mode, an artifact perhaps from their previous lives in sunny western states. The intensity level at West Point remains high, though, in part because of a new crop of instructors, tested by recent combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, who have come back to teach cadets about the moral ambiguities and psychological rigors of counterinsurgency and nation building. Captain Chris McKinney led a company of a hundred men through the bloody strike on Karbala before teaching infantry tactics...
Last may Angela Teusch walked into Duisburg's central train station, where she works as a cleaner, to find her co-workers slack-jawed with incredulity. They were staring at a fresh crop of campaign posters plastered on the station's walls. They portrayed her husband, Wolfgang, a steelworker and union shop steward at ThyssenKrupp Stahl, in his silver blast-furnace smock and hard hat. The real surprise was not the larger-than-life apparition of Herr Teusch and his frayed walrus moustache, but the poster's message: an endorsement from this lifelong Social Democrat of the opposition Christian Democratic...
...fuzzed away as I entered the countryside. The airwaves were jumpy, uncertain and alive, a patchwork of distinctive accents and peculiar regional interests. I knew I was getting close to Texas from the twang of steel guitars. I realized I might reach Omaha by suppertime when I started hearing crop reports. Often, when I was traveling through North Dakota, the only voices I could hear spoke in Native American languages, whose singsong tones, though I found them unintelligible, eased the loneliness of the long, straight highways...
Johnson’s story is sobering as well. His once-rich father lost everything to the heat and floods that destroyed his cotton crop. As a result, LBJ vowed to amass a fortune big enough to withstand any disaster. This pursuit of money would lead to allegations that Johnson improperly used his congressional position for his personal gain—for instance, he tended to help companies that ran ads on his wife Lady Bird’s radio station. And finally, there is Nixon, who as a child was devastated by his younger brother’s death...