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First, you need a digital camera that uses CompactFlash memory cards. About the size of a Wheat Thin, a flash card is the "film" used in many digital cameras today. After taking a few pictures, you remove the card and insert it into a slot on the right-hand side of the polished wood frame. In a few seconds, your pictures are displayed in full color on the 4-in. by 5-in. screen. The frame holds up to 40 images and cycles through them slide-show style. A built-in modem lets you send shots over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portable Portraits | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...represented at the Hague in a few weeks when details of the 1997 Kyoto Protocola treaty which sets specific goals for the reduction of the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere will ostensibly be resolved. The treaty, which was largely negotiated by Vice President Al Gore 69 (insert joke about Gore being the first to identify the phenomenon of global warming here) has been signed by more than 150 countries. Unfortunately, the treaty has yet to be ratified by any industrialized nation, including the United States. Without ratification, the document is largely symbolic and wholly ineffective...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Cooking Up A Storm | 11/2/2000 | See Source »

...comes Starbucks' Barista Utopia Vacuum Coffee Brewing System ($169). The idea is to take vacuum coffee brewing, a method long favored in Europe, and Americanize it--make it plug-in simple, electric and automatic. You put freshly ground coffee in the large funnel on top, insert the funnel's rubber gasket tightly into the water-filled carafe below, push ON and stand back. The water quickly heats to a perfect, sub-boiling 205[degrees]F and gets sucked up into the vacuum created in the funnel, where it briefly mixes with the grounds before cascading back down into the carafe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starbucks' Vacuum Coffee Pot | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

Feel free to insert your own joke here, but be aware that "hold the pickles" has already been used in several variations. Nick Fratangelo has heard them all at his club on Route 22, about 45 minutes east of Pittsburgh in the rolling dairy land of Salem Township...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hold the Pickles, Please | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

Each school has a different insert for the brochure, listing resources that faculty can turn to if they feel students are in immediate need...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Health Program Launched | 9/28/2000 | See Source »

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