Word: flashes
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Amateur Ansel Adamses will appreciate the Kodak DC25's small LCD screen for reviewing photos seconds after you snap them. If you don't like what you see, just erase and start over. The camera, one of the best available for less than $500, uses removable "flash" memory modules for extra storage. You can print the photos from your PC and soon at high-tech photo shops. ($499; Kodak...
There is a rumor that many long years ago, when Dean Harry Lewis was just a lowly professor of computer science, a student walking by his office heard him mutter, "I'd sell my soul for a new computer science/engineering building." This phrase was followed by a bright flash of light and the unmistakable smell of brimstone wafting out from under the closed door...
...biological roots of sin are not by themselves a news flash from the frontiers of science. More than a century ago, Thomas Huxley, Darwin's popularizer, lamented the fact that evolution has given all children "the instinct of unlimited self-assertion"--"their dose of original sin." But the past few decades have brought a deeper Darwinian understanding of human nature, and some of its pioneers believe Huxley underestimated our badness...
Holding lit candles, the crowd of 70 watched the video in silence and then listened to an audio clip of the news flash that shocked the world by announcing that Rabin was dead...
...contract in which the agent's fee is guaranteed is not standard when bands are contracted to pay, said Max A. Eisenbud, an agent for Flash Group Concerts who engineered the council's deal to bring comedian Chris Rock to campus in the spring...