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...Jobs likes nothing better than frolicking in the graveyard of other companies' dead products. Digital music players had been around for years before Apple made the iPod. When it comes to finally making the tablet computer work, Apple has a few weapons those other companies don't have. It has world-beating displays. It has plenty of expertise in low-power engineering; the iPad's specs say it can do 10 hours of Web surfing on one charge. More important, to make up for the absence of a keyboard, Apple has its much patented multitouch technology. The attempts of other...
...video number two, "Bigger is Better," Brown and Harvard compare plans for the evening. Harvard's plans are to do work for his four classes, including "Dead White Guy Philosophy 101, Insider Trading 302," and "this graduate level seminar entitled 'Country Club Etiquette.'" (Must have missed that last one in the course guide.) The video concludes with this...
...reminiscent of the networks' initial handling of the Beslan school crisis in 2004, when terrorists took hundreds of people hostage in a school in southern Russia. After a standoff of three days, security forces stormed the building, resulting in a gun battle that left more than 300 people dead, many of them children. For 30 minutes after the security forces' assault, however, Channel One continued to broadcast a film called Lady With a Parrot, while Rossia aired a travel show called In Search of Adventures. Of the three national networks, only NTV carried live reports from the scene right away...
...humor that avoids any potential frustration with the production’s opaqueness. Maupassant (Philip Y. Gingerich ’13), installed among the audience members, occasionally cheers on, shouts at, and has conversations with those onstage, while the theater manager, as Leah sobs over the body of her dead husband, exclaims exasperatedly, “Shut up! Who cares...
...about to prepare to send the little girl, an American citizen, back home to Miami when catastrophe struck. Annoule was on his way back from his trip to sell used clothing in the southwestern city of Petit-Goâve. His bus came to a halt because piles of dead bodies were blocking the road. "When I saw those bodies, I only thought of one thing - my daughter," says Annoule, 37. "I walked all night, nonstop, from 5:30 in the evening to 10 a.m., to reach...