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...feature by at least one car manufacturer, according to Cross Match officials. Besides thwarting thieves, it could be programmed to prevent your 17-year-old from going faster than, say, 55 m.p.h. by activating a speed limiter and to play dead if your 14-year-old had the bright idea to get behind the wheel...
...Olympics' most fundamental pursuits, but it is not the kind of sport that lures big-name advertisers. Even though Thailand's weightlifting team won four medals at the Athens Olympics four years ago, most Thais on the plane up from Bangkok seemed to have no idea there were medal favorites sitting near them...
...Louvre still takes its public-service mission very seriously, and its lending policy isn't limitless either: earlier this year, the Louvre pulled out of a show that a private promoter was mounting in Verona, Italy. The Louvre would have received $6.4 million for its participation, but the idea of working on a commercial basis with a private operator rather than a museum caused some concern among curators. Even Cason Thrash ran into restrictions on what she could do at her party: the museum drew the line at using candles and turned down her request to hold the event...
...ordinary people to discuss their reaction to Gates' notion and then turning it all into a book. It has worked like a dream, and the book will be out by the end of the year. The remarkable thing is the variety of objections to what seems like an idea that's hard to dispute...
There were times when Randy Pausch's sheer exuberance, physical and spiritual, made it easy to imagine it would end some other way. We could watch his "Last Lecture" on YouTube, receive the gift he was giving us and reject the idea that it would come at an ultimate price--that Pausch would indeed die one day of pancreatic cancer, as he did on July...