Word: lighter
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Mallett: Oh, no! One should never take oneself too seriously. Sometimes it is necessary to keep things lighter. For instance, in my presentation at the Boston Museum of Science last week I used cartoons to lighten things up. What is important to understand, however, is that when time travel does happen there will have to be strict government regulation. Everything has a good and a negative side to it. Even your car—it’s great to have it, but it could be used to run someone over. So, ultimately there will be things like Timecops...
Today's fleet is both more comfortable and safer than the generation of '70s-era Pontiac GTOs. Higher-tensile steels enable manufacturers to make frames that vibrate less and are stiffer and lighter (the bane of convertibles past was lumbering weight and rattle). "Airflow management" is now a priority--with windshields shaped to reduce wind so you can actually hear that nine-speaker stereo. And upscale roadsters like the Mercedes SL500 feature pop-up roll bars that can deploy in a third of a second. (Such bars, however, won't necessarily save you in a rollover. The National Highway Traffic...
...made a mistake not to be interested in it." But Logitech is betting that it can catch up with the KeyCase and the TypeAway, which is more useful for keying in longer files, folds to a thickness of half an inch and weighs 3.9 oz., significantly smaller and lighter than anything else on the market...
...restored. It is a joyful symphony, rendered in equally high spirits by the BSO. The connection between personal misery and musical delight would recur several times throughout the rest of Beethoven’s life. It was necessary, after an intense musical evening, to end on a somewhat lighter note; the orchestra provided this perfectly. The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s graceful rendition of the familiar melodies and brought the diversely beautiful program to a successful close...
Critics of Pickering’s record on race also pointed to a 1994 cross burning case in which he encouraged prosecutors to seek a lighter sentence for one of the defendants. The critics, of course, told only half the story. What they failed to mention is that the individual in question had played a much smaller role in the crime than one of his co-defendants, who copped a plea and was charged with a misdemeanor. Pickering’s aim was not to defend cross burning, but to express concern for the apparent injustice of sending a lesser...