Word: distortive
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...into frivolity with a line of high-tech toys called Intel Play. The latest is the Computer Sound Morpher ($49), which looks a lot like a personal communicator from a '50s sci-fi flick. Armed with Intel's Morpher, kids can record voices and other sounds and then edit, distort, remix and generally transmogrify them on their PCs. Warning: parental commands may lose some authority when played back in "chipmunk" mode...
...marveling should raise suspicions, however. It's probably not a good idea to try to duplicate the best moment of one's life 40 times, if only because it will cheapen the truly good times. And even as they help open the mind to new experiences, drugs also can distort the reality to which users ineluctably return. Is ecstasy snake oil? And how harmful...
...medical reporter, I'm keenly aware that health news is confusing. And yes, I admit we journalists sometimes distort the issue by reporting results in starkly black-and-white terms, without much nuance or guidance on how to interpret them. Often we raise false hopes and complicate the lives of doctors who have to tell patients that the "cures" they've heard about in the media are still in the future. So when I arrived in steamy New Orleans last week for the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting, I knew I would have to be very careful...
...governor has not said that Russia and China should be enemies; in fact he has said that China is a competitor, and we should reach out to Russia," Bush foreign policy adviser Condoleezza Rice told The New York Times. "It is very much like the vice president to distort [Bush's] record...
...national tradition to be fair - even wishful - about underdogs because of our conviction that democracy depends on the will of the voters and that big money shouldn't distort the process. The media encourage this wishfulness because a good fight attracts an audience. But after Tuesday night, barring a howling scandal or a bus accident, this fair-mindedness simply becomes foolish titillation. The front-loading of the primary system, which squeezes a decisive bunch of primaries into February and early March, plus the dominance of television ads purchased by big money, has turned the stately nomination process into a half...