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...than 500,000 players each day to the social-networking site. But the brothers, Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla, had a quick and clever response to the accusations of copyright infringement. Their newly dubbed "WordScraper" now features a malleable board that, if one feels so inclined, can be rearranged to form the original Scrabble board...
...term "sci-fi" - Robert Heinlein used it first - then by using the phrase in public in 1954 he instantly popularized it (to the lasting chagrin of purists, who preferred "SF"). Forry, as everyone called him, was the genre's foremost advocate, missionary and ballyhooer. His love for the form, stretching back more than 80 years, godfathered and legitimized the obsessions of a million fanboys. His passion was their validation. He was the original Fanman. (See TIME's collection of Hollywood's best robot movies...
...matches exactly the way we learn language as infants.”This class has helped Lewis crystallize her feelings that poetry is essential in human life. “I started in poetry,” Lewis says. “That’s the central form.” In the Phelps Lecture that she delivered on Tuesday titled “The Health of Poetry,” Lewis delved into the importance of the form, exploring ideas of creativity and depression.“I don’t buy this figure of the depressed...
...largely formless and leaderless Hilltop Youth movement had flocked to Hebron vowing to resist the eviction at all cost. If the court order was implemented, they warned, Israel would experience the trauma of Jew killing Jew. They also threatened that the price tag of an eviction would take the form of random violence against Palestinian innocents. But by catching the diehards in the house unprepared - the raid was launched at midday rather than at night, when the settlers had expected it would come and when there would be hundreds more braced for confrontation inside the disputed building - the Israeli police...
...additional spending plan is being prepared as China's economic data continue to weaken. That would not be surprising. The best way for China to help the world economy at this point is to help itself; not by exporting more, but by spending at home - in whatever way or form possible. After their lectures, and on his way out the door, that's a point that Paulson no doubt also made to his Chinese friends...