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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...vice-president of Platform Experience (whatever that is). "We will argue over literally a single pixel." As a result, when you swipe your finger across the screen to unlock the iPhone, you're not just accessing a system of nested menus, you're entering a tiny universe, where data exist as bouncy, gemlike, animated objects that behave according to consistent rules of virtual physics. Because there's no intermediary input device-like a mouse or a keyboard-there's a powerful illusion that you're physically handling data with your fingers. You can pinch an image with two fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apple's New Calling: The iPhone | 1/10/2007 | See Source »

...Daniel Gunther, "Ashley has no concept of these things." But he is talking as a scientist; the philosopher uses different tools. Just because autonomy doesn't show up on an X-ray doesn't mean it can't be harmed by a scalpel. And if rights are inalienable, they exist whether the patient is aware of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pillow Angel Ethics, Part 2 | 1/9/2007 | See Source »

...into a competitive advantage. Today, with gas prices nearing 1970s levels and customers turning to fuel-efficient cars, it pays to be green once again. But Fukui was thinking beyond this year's balance sheets. If business continued with business as usual, he warned, "society will not let us exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Business Saw the Light | 1/5/2007 | See Source »

Assuredly, there exist both men and women who have academic backgrounds, leadership experience, and dynamism that would make them excellent Harvard presidents. A woman, however, would be the only candidate who had faced and overcome the obstacles that modern sexism presents: those that half of Harvard’s student body will likely face. Harvard has been trying, with limited success, to confront the problem through efforts such as the new Women’s Center. But a female president’s firsthand knowledge of how to overcome such obstacles would make her the best-equipped candidate to lead...

Author: By Justine R. Lescroart | Title: Beyond a Women’s Center | 1/5/2007 | See Source »

...Johnny Depp gets, he's a bargain for Disney." The leads also lend emotional continuity to the new episodes. "I really don't think you can change the actors," says Brett Ratner, director of the Rush Hour films. "Without Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, Rush Hour 3 would not exist. There's no Jet Li-- Chris Rock version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of The 3quel | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

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