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WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE MODE OF TRAVEL...
...huge, smooth head of an outdoor sculpture, a bad Buddha, and the dull eyes and mouth of a golem who's just been recklessly woken. His screen personality could be seen as surly or resentful - in the Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry or Toshiro Mifune Yojimbo mode - if he displayed anything as human as an attitude. Instead he simply looms and emits fumes; he just is. He can read lines and move about, but there's no inner life to this Refrigerator; when you shut the door, the light goes out. (Read the Q&A with Vin Diesel...
...theorizes offsets the wakeful brain's activity. During waking hours, the brain keeps adding new information about its environment, forming new circuits and new connections in an ever thickening neural network. But even the fruit-fly brain has its limits and, like any computer, needs a fail-safe shutdown mode as it gets close to overload. That's where sleep comes in. (See pictures of how animals sleep...
This is why default options pack such power. Most of us will save for retirement, run our computers in energy-efficient mode and be organ donors if we have to take action to say no - but not if we have to take action to say yes. Almost nobody signed up for a German utility's clean-energy plan until it became the default, and then 94% stuck with it. We're also much likelier to go to the doctor for preventive care like flu shots if the appointment is made for us. In a speech last year, Orszag even suggested...
...headline "Gen Ed Creators Raise Doubts." In fact, because the Gen Ed planners quoted in the article stated their doubts in response to questions posed by The Crimson, "admit" is the more accurate reflection of the way in which the concerns were voiced. "Raise" suggested a more active mode of communication, and has therefore been amended...