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...button to turn on or increase the water's flow, one to turn it off or down, and one each to make it hotter or colder. Behind the minimalist exterior is a programmable sensor that allows the user to get precisely the temperature desired with a single push-er, caress-of a button...
...button to turn on or increase the water's flow, one to turn it off or down, and one each to make it hotter or colder. Behind the minimalist exterior is a programmable sensor that allows the user to get precisely the temperature desired with a single push - er, caress - of a button. Nouvel can pick his tasks, so why bathrooms? "It turned out I have something to say about taps," says Nouvel, 61. "We have technology now that lets us minimize our gestures; we can move forward into a kind of Darwinism of objects." Well, some...
...giving the Web site an endowment and organizing a crack team of for-profit business school students, the UC’s Web site will finally become a true power player by consolidating power until it finally assumes its correct role as the hegemonic ruler of the world, er, we mean, the trusty student Web portal...
...office for something elective or in the ER for something urgent, this is usually the first question I get after explaining what's wrong and how we're going...
...argument in favor of the Patriot Act’s surveillance provisions is that not subjecting private records to scrutiny creates a safe haven for ne’er-do-wells and that those who are doing nothing wrong have nothing to fear. But it strikes me as absurd, and even somewhat insulting to the investigative talents of FBI agents, to suggest that the government needs to compromise civil rights in order to catch the terrorists in our midst...