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Overhyped products are going to disappoint. That's the Faustian bargain of overhyping in the first place. What I object to is the prognosticating: because Apple didn't include some crucial feature, the future of computing may well be threatened by some ominous trend. At least when you base those prophesies on a shipping product, you have an anchor to ground your speculations. But when you point out that Apple didn't include olfactory sensors in the initial iPad, and thus has fatally condemned us to a future of smell-impaired computing, you run the very real risk that Apple...
...needs are Brendan Fraser's big watery eyes. They gaze at a wheelchair-bound child and fill helplessly with sympathy, empathy, pathos. They glint with a steely resolve when he thinks of a way to prolong the lives of his ailing kids. And when he fights to bring a crucial medication to fruition, viewers' eyes may mist up a bit as well. Such is the emotive impact of the movie genre known as the true-life inspirational...
...crucial missed opportunity came early on for Harvard. About halfway through the first period, an attempt at goal by sophomore forward Alex Killorn managed to sneak its way behind Kalemba, but the puck hit the post and didn’t have the power to make its way across the line...
...Playing Trinity yesterday was obviously a huge privilege, but really it’s a non-conference match-up,” Buchanan said. “With that said, Penn, Princeton, and Yale are all huge matches. They are crucial because one loss will put us outside of our goal for the Ivy League title...
...overloaded with luggage from its planeload of German tourists, who were flying to meet their cruise liner in New York City; one of two routine daily runway sweeps at Charles de Gaulle Airport had reportedly been cancelled that day; and Concorde workers had allegedly neglected to replace a crucial tire spacer on the aircraft in maintenance work four days before the crash. Continental is the only company charged, along with the firm's former welder John Taylor, who fixed the titanium strip to the Continental DC-10, and his supervisor Stanley Ford. The French are also going after their...