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When buying a digital camera, many people focus on just one factor: megapixels, the more the better. But that's not the whole story. Lens quality, image-processing capability and even the size of the pixels can all have a greater effect on how your pictures turn out. "The number of megapixels," says Bob Sobol, an image scientist at Hewlett-Packard, "is relatively unimportant...
...very difficult decision since both departments are top notch,” Mullainathan wrote in an e-mail. “But the big deciding factor was the strength of the psychology department and the number of people in the University working on psychology and economics issues...
...traveling plays into this one,” Shoemaker said. “When I went to Portugal, I was there for almost a week. I really don’t have a lot of time to get my body adjusted. Hopefully it won’t be a factor, but it might...
...quoted molecular geneticist Dr. Jeffrey Friedman as saying "there are genes in the population that predispose to obesity." Genetics may be a factor, but there are people in many other countries who have the same genes as Americans but not the same problems. Maybe our habit of blaming others, faulting our ancestors or suing McDonald's--instead of admitting that obesity is our problem and we must fix it--is what made us fat in the first place. DOUG FARQUHAR Washington...
...Since recommendations by concentrations for all levels of honors depend on so many different factors, it’s hard to say that any one factor is crucial...rather, the variations are just what might be expected from time to time, under the system that we had in place through this year,” Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education John T. O’Keefe wrote in an e-mail...