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...Some are banking on the digital slr (or dslr) - a digital version of classic single-lens-reflex cameras. Photo enthusiasts pay a premium for slr cameras because they equate them with quality: slrs let users add different lenses, and are known for capturing more light and for snapping exactly what the photographer views through the finder. Canon and Nikon, both strong slr players from the analog days, are leading the charge. Sony, too, is moving for the first time into dslrs with its Alpha dslr A100, which hit the market in July. The camera uses slr technology Sony acquired from...
...substantial fines if convicted. And News Corporation honcho Rupert Murdoch's publication could be left looking for a new chief royal correspondent. Could the scandal grow? The Metropolitan Police first conducted a small investigation into the Goodman affair. But it charged its antiterror unit with a larger probe in light of indications that many prominent politicians, actors and athletes - often devout mobile-phone users - might also have been compromised. Phone companies O2 and Vodafone have been cooperating with detectives to identify any other targeted customers. Was the dirt worth the drama? Goodman's alleged spycraft revealed nothing as salacious...
...Geneva-based World Health Organization launched a hiring ban on smokers in December 2005, the same month Sophie Blinham was fired just minutes into her new job at an English data communications firm after admitting she smoked. Von Schnurbein insists the Commission's decision is not "a green light for employers to discriminate," but Tom Jenkins of the European Trade Union Confederation disagrees. "This opens the possibility for all kinds of discriminations," he says, citing the obese and alcoholics. The Dublin Internet entrepreneur who placed the ad, Philip Tobin, was quoted as saying that smokers "stink...
...glittery hypocrisies and white lies and unspoken truths that make up human interaction. When the novel begins, Hannah is 14 and bearing silent witness to the demolition of her parents' marriage while cautiously exploring the notion of romance herself. From this vivid little home movie, the book spins forward, light-footed, catching Hannah on a disastrous college road trip, falling for her trampy cousin's boyfriend, having her first kiss at the advanced age of 21. Where Prep was about love and social class, Man of My Dreams is very much a book about love, love, love, but Sittenfeld shows...
...extent that some insiders say Sharon was grooming Halutz, not Olmert, to replace him some day as prime minister - Halutz, 58, at first impressed Israelis with his Top Gun swagger and aviator glasses. Once asked how it felt to drop a bomb on people, he replied: " I feel a light bump to the plane as a result of the bomb's release. A second later and it's gone, and that's all. That is what I feel...