Word: ethers
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...realm of metadata and search. Metadata is identifying information that is programmed into these online texts, making them easier to search and locate. It’s important to get metadata right because metadata is how these online works can be located in the vast ether of the digital world, and also gives digital works a leg up on hardcopy books. According to Weinberger, “Books create an ethos in which thoughts succeed by being self-contained. The web creates an ethos in which works succeed also by linking outward from themselves. Both have value...
...operations, claims that the market--even at $200,000 a shot--is huge, with 8 million millionaires worldwide, a couple of whom have already spent $20 million each to fly with the Russians. Branson wants to keep bringing the price down, so middle-class families can vacation in the ether. By year two, deposits will be down to $20,000, says Tai, heralding "the democratization of space...
...Snow's map, says Johnson, "was a transformative moment in the history of cities." And it was a remarkable success for "consilient" thinking, a philosophy formulated in the 1840s in which a cohesive theory from one discipline is used to inform ideas from another. Snow's work on administering ether as an anesthetic convinced him cholera was ingested, not inhaled. As a physician he understood how disease spread through a body. As a resident of Soho, he had the local knowledge to realize that the contagion radiated from a single source. "When you look at cholera...
...including Target.com. So earlier this year, Sexton and the Federation of the Blind sued Target for violating the disabilities act with an inaccessible website. It seemed a futile move. Everyone knew the act applied only to a "place of accommodation," a physical spot rather than some space in the ether. Everyone knew that because courts had said so, and Target's lawyers made this compelling point in asking the judge to dismiss the suit. But everyone, it turned out, was wrong...
...slaying of a Colorado teen, to killing 48 other people over a 25-year period, which if true would make him one of the most prolific murderers in U.S. history; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Browne used a variety of methods to subdue and kill--ant killer then screwdriver, ether then ice pick. He met most victims by chance--the first in 1970 while in South Korea with the U.S. Army, the others in nine states. He confessed after years of what authorities called "cryptic and poetic" letter writing and talks with retired law-enforcement officials investigating cold cases...