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...telling and informative. But we should be careful to consider ratios of risk rather than absolute numbers. It may be true that airline travel is safer than car travel, but a fair comparison would be the number of deaths in relation to the number of people traveling in that mode. Obviously, the number of people riding in cars is overwhelmingly higher than the number who fly, so a straight number-of-deaths comparison is slightly misleading. KEVIN CRYDERMAN Rochester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 25, 2006 | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...professional photographer, nor am I a devoted hobbyist, but I do like to take good pictures. Digital SLR cameras resemble older single lens reflex film cameras in form and function but don't mind if you shoot mostly in "auto," that is to say, "idiot" mode, so I like them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nikon D40 Digital SLR Camera | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...letter "F" goes up, the image of the camera's aperture gets tighter. It doesn't take long to sort out, then, that the higher the "f-stop," the more closed the camera's aperture. Beginners will appreciate the fact that the D40 has a knob of preset modes, not just my favorite "auto" mode but "portrait," "sports" and more. What's cool is that, when you change modes, the screen shows the changed settings. Little by little, the notions will start to sink in: what the camera is trying to do to shoot action, what it needs to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nikon D40 Digital SLR Camera | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...identity of the College. And in a campaign crowded with candidates, the duo is holding fast to its idealistic proposals in hopes of capturing the Undergraduate Council’s top two seats. “I think idealism is a point of view, it is not a mode of operations,” Zaidi says, who also stresses the importance of a campus-wide community. The Zaidi-Lee ticket is not short on inspiring slogans, with a Web site that pledges to build “inclusive communities,” “engaging relationships...

Author: By Khalid Abdalla and P. KIRKPATRICK Reardon, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Zaidi: A ‘Promise’ Based on Ideals, Change | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

...white stock. He even dug up antique lenses, of the kind directors were obliged to use a half-century ago. By golly, if he shoots into the sun, he gets lens flare. He induced Thomas Newman to write a lush symphonic score in something like the Max Steiner mode and encouraged his actors to perform in the old presentational manner, as if they'd never heard of Stanislavsky, much less Dr. Freud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: In the Heat of the Noir | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

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