Word: idea
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...mostly graphics-free way to search the Web. Indeed, on the VII you don't browse the Web, you "clip" it. Palm users can visit only participating websites (so far, a few hundred have signed up) rather than the entire Web. While I was at first offended at this idea--the Internet is meant to be open and free!--I quickly appreciated the faster downloads and utilitarian data. If the Palm takes off (did I mention the service is too expensive?), I can even imagine people doing the unthinkable: paying for selected Web content. But not at these prices...
...high-ceilinged room was used to generate lightning to test the capacitors the electric firm made. Now video artist Tony Oursler has annexed that space for a talking-light-bulb piece. "We have yet to have an artist who comes here who doesn't have a big idea," says Thompson. "These buildings have a heft that invites large gestures." It's not just new projects. Rauschenberg chose to display his biggest work in a gallery at Mass MoCA that is about the size of a football field. Even in art, size matters...
...idea is to crash Prospector into what NASA scientists think might be a huge ice field and hope the impact sends up an icy spray big enough to be spotted--and measured--by the Hubble and ground-based telescopes. Controllers need to fly it into the right crater at just the right angle, and smack bang into the middle of the ice field. Says University of Texas aerospace engineer David Goldstein, who proposed the suicide splashdown: "It's going to be a close call...
DIED. CHRISTOPHER COCKERELL, 88, inventor of the Hovercraft; in Hythe, Hampshire, England. He got the idea by making an empty cat-food can float within a larger coffee can with gusts from a vacuum cleaner...
...Kaplan, a senior at Masterman High in Philadelphia, wonders how the state can keep telling students there's no more money for education, "but then they find it for stadiums." Jessicah Smith, a senior at West Philadelphia High, has no problem with new stadiums, "but I'm against the idea of using public money." In December they and about 30 other students stood on the steps of city hall and put their own spin on The Twelve Days of Christmas: "Five budget cuts, four broken bathrooms, three schools a-rotting, two books per classroom and a stadium for [Eagles owner...