Word: fractionation
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...processors, photo-editing programs and games lack the rich features of their retail counterparts--the word processor in Google Docs, for example, has just 11 fonts vs. the dozens in Microsoft Word--chances are you won't miss what's missing. After all, most people use only a small fraction of the features available. "Software went through a period where it got way too complex. We have a concept that focuses on simplicity," says Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google's free Web applications...
...final hours have not been a time for nuance, especially with polls suggesting a race too close to call in both states. Clinton rolled across economically struggling Ohio this past weekend in a bus emblazoned "Solutions for America," giving feisty speeches to crowds that - while they were only a fraction of the size that Barack Obama was drawing - seemed as intense and determined as any she has drawn to date in this campaign. In depressed Youngstown, she appeared with hometown favorite Kelly "The Ghost" Pavlik, the middleweight boxing champion, and declared: "I'm a fighter, a doer and a champion...
...less famous but more interesting artists. Last spring’s Mates of State concert in the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub was well-attended and fun, proving that even Harvard students are capable of appreciating good music in an intimate setting. Either way, the minute fraction of the student body on the CEB should not be the only people able to voice their partialities. If the CEB (hopefully) opens their ears to undergraduate feedback, perhaps they should also open students’ ears to the music of their peers. A CEB-sponsored concert featuring Harvard bands would...
...Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the sale of cloned meat in the U.S., having determined that products from cloned cattle, pigs and goats are as safe to eat as meat from their naturally reproduced brethren. That makes advocates happy: Cloning enables the livestock industry to do in a fraction of the time what breeders have been doing throughout history, narrowing the gene pool to its most desirable genes. Beyond that, say cloners, future benefits include production of genetically engineered animals that could offer a variety of benefits - more nutrient-rich milk, for example, for people without adequate access...
...hard to even remember what made the disc so terrible. Throughout, Collett sings in a voice reminiscent of Bob Dylan and occasionally even channels the folk legend through harmonica riffs. But while he’s got the sound and the lilt down, Collett possesses only a tiny fraction of Dylan’s songwriting talent. He seemingly lacks the ability to create anything inventive, interesting, or meaningful. From time to time, Collett throws in a couple of different instruments and marginally varies a tune or two, but overall he fails to break out of the small...