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...portrait," "sports" and more. What's cool is that, when you change modes, the screen shows the changed settings. Little by little, the notions will start to sink in: what the camera is trying to do to shoot action, what it needs to take a portrait at night, etc...
...Avoid serving nuts and using nut oils-sesame, peanut, etc.-while cooking because for children with severe nut allergies, oil traces left on countertops can set off a reaction, even without eating the food in question...
...State Department has managed to staff only 52% of its positions dealing with Iraq. Recruit and deploy economic managerial expertise from the U.S. government and private sector to find ways to employ Iraqis. In the short term, find ways to increase the availability of dependable power, clean water, fuel, etc. Give the tribal leaders cash incentives to protect Iraq's oil facilities and pipelines or suffer the consequences...
...comment “A Defense of Prejudice” (Nov. 2). Evidently, he subscribes to some bizarre theory of psychology according to which belonging to a religious group is equivalent to renouncing independent thought. It should be fairly obvious that some people consider themselves Muslims, Mormons, Jews, Catholics, etc., even though they may not agree with certain tenets of theology espoused by their coreligionists. At the same time, many religions (like Islam and Judaism) incorporate several different streams and lack central religious authorities, so it is not even clear that these religions have a single orthodox theology to which...
...Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" - who wrote these songs? The same people responsible for most of the great pop music of the early and mid-20th century: Jews. In 1964, when Phil Spector produced a great album of seasonal tunes sung by his house performers (the Crystals, the Ronettes, etc.), he didn't call it the Holiday Album. It was A Christmas Gift for You, and it ended with Spector himself dewily intoning a Christmas wish, backed by violins sawing away at "Silent Night...