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...scroll wheel actually engages and disengages the free spin depending on what application you're in, and what you're doing. If you are inching through a news story, you get the familiar bump-by-bump ratchet action, but if you land on your friend's mile-long blog and start scrolling, the ratchet bumps go away and the wheel's spin becomes Lance Armstrong smooth...
...search for a missing person, few places in the�world would be more forbidding than the sandy 28-mile-long sliver of land known as the Gaza Strip. Its cities are a chaotic maze of dusty alleyways lined by warrens of crumbling buildings that each seem indistinguishable from the next. The 1.4 million people who live there make it the most densely populated patch of land on earth. At times, the streets and souks can become a suffocating crush of human congestion. And the task of finding a lost soul is made more hazardous by the long-held...
...middle of sophomore year, the importance of protecting this liberal arts tradition cannot be overstated. Undergraduate engineering programs impose a daunting set of requirements on their students to maintain universal accreditation standards. These rigorous prerequisites functionally contravene the American liberal arts philosophy; being forced to commit to fulfilling a mile-long list of engineering requirements as a freshman necessarily eliminates the chance to dabble and explore, which is supposed to be the purpose of the first year. Some may of course object that non-engineers often restrict themselves to taking courses in fields similar to their own, and so engineering...
...Earthquakes The Bay Area is not the only region threatened by quakes. The greatest risk outside the West Coast is found along the New Madrid fault zone, a 120-mile-long system named after a little town in Arkansas. This is where a series of 2,000 earthquakes struck over a five-month period between 1811 and 1812; five of the quakes registered magnitude 8.0 or more. Eighteen of them caused church bells to ring on the East Coast...
...better enforcement both at the border and inside the country. A large majority, 71%, favor major penalties for people who hire illegal immigrants; 62% want the U.S. to take "whatever steps are necessary" to secure the border with Mexico, including posting military forces; and 56% favor a 2,000-mile-long fence. That two-pronged approach to illegal immigration is the same one favored by President Bush, who wants both a guest worker program and tighter border security...