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...toward the netbook end - and more than sufficient unto the day. The iPad is thin: half an inch (1.25 cm) at its thickest. It's light: 1.5 lb. (680 g), half of what a MacBook Air weighs. It runs a scaled-up version of the iPhone operating system we know and love or at least tolerate. To make up for the lack of a keyboard or mouse, the display is a lovely touchscreen that's so superbright and supercrisp that it looks bigger than its real dimensions - 9.7 in. (about 25 cm) diagonally. The iPad can cost as little...
...Most important, Apple's engineers know something those other companies don't: form has trumped function. You can load up a tablet with horsepower and extra features till it can do your taxes and lick the stamp, but if it's not instantly obvious how to use those features without a manual - and if you don't look good using them - nobody cares. The iPad isn't wildly feature-rich. It doesn't run Flash, and the only browser it runs is Safari. Like the iPhone, it can't multitask, and it doesn't appear to have a serious file...
...Right up through the line-up we know we were in a dog fight,” Fish said. “They took it to us. Good young coach—he’s recruited a great bunch of kids, and he beat...
...problem of domestic abuse in the South Asian community has been studied on a few occasions with striking results. When the Asian Task Force against Domestic Violence (ATASK) conducted a study in Massachusetts in 2000, it found that “44 percent of South Asians know a woman who has been physically abused or injured by her partner,” and “31 percent know a woman whose partner insults or humiliates her regularly.” Professors Anita Raj of Boston University and Jay Silverman of the Harvard School of Public Health published a study...
...town-council meeting that you'd see anywhere in the world. One of the elders stood and presented a list of requests - more schools, a decent hospital, paved roads, repair of the irrigation system. "We don't need you to cooperate with the work," the elder concluded. "We know how to work...