Word: crudely
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...unlikely to stop there. They're just too useful. Once you use an iPhone, you'll get twitchy fingers. You'll wonder why you can't swipe your finger across your laptop screen to jump backward and forward in your browser. The touchability exposes the mouse as the crude finger substitute that it really is. Look at the success of Nintendo's Wii, which works on the same principle, converting physical movements into virtual ones. People are ready to break the fourth wall of computing and put their fingers directly on the data. This is manual-free computing, instinctive...
...high gas prices we are paying are due not only to the increased demand by drivers but also to that by the plastics industry for crude oil. When we rein in our use of plastic, we will stop shooting ourselves in the foot at the gas pump...
...losing such memories can make us cruel and spiteful. It is perhaps not surprising, then, that students with few remembered joys or warm feelings of acceptance are tempted to unleash malice upon those around them. The cowardly methods of attack that such law school students have chosen—crude and anonymous—suggest the fumblings of an amnesiac to fill the void memory has left...
...crude calculus that might put off classmates who stumbled across this place in high school or conducted an exhaustive search of colleges and found this one to fit best...
...annexed.) Crowning the hill above Jalazon is the Beit El settlement. Remove the barbed-wire fencing, the security gate and guard towers, and Beit El's tidy rows of red-roofed houses and gardens could be mistaken for an Arizona suburb. A friend of Omar's named Yousef, a crude map of Palestine tattooed on his wrist, says, "All I know is that the Jews took our village, chased us away, and now we see them living up on top of the hill in their beautiful houses with flowers and swimming pools." He adds, "One person up there...