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...Diminishing Returns Your history item on Ford's model T indicated that when it was first introduced in 1908 its fuel efficiency was 13-21 miles per gallon [Oct. 6]. According to the website of the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, in 2006 the average U.S. passenger car got 22.4 miles to the gallon. It seems we haven't got very far in 100 years. Jeff DeVito, Bound Brook, New Jersey...
Phelps conducted other studies in which the images included such friendly faces as Will Smith's and Harrison Ford's and found that this helped control the amygdala too. "The more you think about people as individuals," she says, "the more the brain calms down...
...Cornell has proved itself no small foe, however, in beating preseason favorite Yale at home 17-14 two weeks ago, and Lehigh 25-24 last week, a game in which senior quarterback Nathan Ford passed for 438 yards and two touchdowns. Ford completed 39 of 63 attempts and led the Big Red on a fourth quarter game-winning drive, finding senior wideout Jesse Baker in the end zone as time expired...
...Harvard’s game plan then hinges on forcing quarterback Ford, who currently sits third on the Cornell career charts for passing yards, to step up, but his ambitions will by no means go unopposed by the Crimson defense...
...will be familiar with is his namesake, the Ken Burns Effect. In this technique, the camera slowly zooms or pans across a still image, carrying the viewer’s focus along with it. Burns, who originally wanted to be a feature film director in the style of John Ford, was exposed to the potential of the still image by his photography professors at Hampshire College. “I decided to explore with an energetic camera’s eye the entity of that photography,” Burns said. He’s been at it ever since...