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...What's particularly clever about "Eros" is the way Herpich uses the forms contained in a panel to mimic those of its predecessor. A fallen ice-cream cone transposes into an eye and a nose; the fluttering wings of a bug cut to a matching close-up of the ears of the jackass. These visual puns are the equivalent of clever poetic wordplay, but unique to comix. Herpich, who's pen and ink drawings are otherwise fairly simple, has a gift for the infinitely variable patterns of comix. Through repetition and pauses, panels that repeat something from before or else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the "Cusp" | 2/14/2003 | See Source »

Harvard posted an even more significant gain in the USCHO.com Pairwise Rankings where it took over the No. 1 spot for the first time all season. Because the Pairwise Rankings attempt to mimic the NCAA’s selection and seeding criteria, the rise suggests that the Crimson is back in control of its own destiny of earning the top seed...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Improves In Polls, Exposure | 1/22/2003 | See Source »

...does offer travelers advice on navigating the new security system. Its suggestions include not locking your bag, since the TSA will break the lock if it has to; not packing any food or beverages (chocolate in particular can mimic the characteristics of explosives in the EDS machines); putting shoes on top so that they can be removed and searched easily; spreading books out and not stacking them on top of one another (stacked books are too dense for the EDS to "see" through and might trigger an alert); and putting all sharp items in a checked bag, not a carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Relearning to Pack | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...does offer travelers advice on navigating the new security system. Its suggestions include not locking your bag, since the TSA will break the lock if it has to; not packing any food or beverages (chocolate in particular can mimic the characteristics of explosives in the EDS machines); putting shoes on top so that they can be removed and searched easily; spreading books out and not stacking them on top of one another (stacked books are too dense for the EDS to "see" through and might trigger an alert); and putting all sharp items in a checked bag, not a carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Relearning to Pack for Air Travel | 1/6/2003 | See Source »

...Attachment One out of every 212 e-mails sent in the U.K. during 2002 was infected with a virus, according to Web security firm MessageLabs. That's up from one in every 380 in 2001 and one in 790 in 2000. The worst culprits: "spoof" viruses like Klez that mimic e-mails from a friend or colleague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Price to Pay for a Botched Buy | 12/22/2002 | See Source »

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