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...legendary. Any conversation with him is about hours of work, about refusing to be satisfied until the tiniest things are absolutely right. He's most pleased with what consumers will never notice. He wants them to use the iPad without considering the thousands of decisions and innovations that have gone into what seems a natural and unmediated interaction. "If it works beautifully, it should also work robustly," he says. "It's made for people to chuck onto the car seat and thrust into luggage without thinking. It's not to be delicate with. Have you tried...
...previous three years, she had watched the toads increase in number with the waxing of the moon. But last year was different. The moon grew from crescent to gibbous, and suddenly the toads were gone. "It went from there being 90 to 100 toads down to six, and then to one, and then zero," says Grant. A few mating pairs hung around, but after two days, they too left. "It was so dramatic, I was trying to think of reasons why they might have gone," she says. "I was at a loss. Did somebody come and disturb them? Did somebody...
...room shaking. "Things were falling down, cracking. Everything was rattling," she recalls. The next day, her adviser, a professor of biology at Oxford University named Tim Halliday, e-mailed to make sure she hadn't been hurt. "I wrote to him, 'I'm O.K., but the toads are gone,' " she says. "He wrote back, 'This could be interesting. Why don't we look at it further?' " (See pictures of the L'Aquila earthquake...
...Harvard club team will continue training at the same gym, even after the Oshimas are gone...
...speech at First Parish Church Meetinghouse elicited both laughter and tears as he discussed the lasting influence of a work written, as he said at the event, “to help readers feel something about what it was to be a foot soldier in a long-gone war in Vietnam...