Word: motioning
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GSAS students also voted on a more conciliatory second motion which expressed regret in Summers’ statements on women in science, their effects, and parts of his leadership style...
...that motion, 945 students said that they agreed with the statement, while 362 students said they disagreed. One hundred forty-nine voted to abstain, and 87 said they needed more information...
...creative energies. Still, the results can be startlingly similar, as you can see in the entire room of heads painted by both artists. Bacon's 1971 Selfportrait shares some Cubist influences with Picasso's 1909 Head of a Man. But in almost every case Bacon's portraits reflect more motion, energy and distortion - and deliver a fiercer punch to the nervous system...
...Motion sensing has found its way into remote controls, laptop computers and video-game accessories. Now it's in cell phones too. Recently Samsung debuted the SCH-S310, the first mobile with "3-D movement recognition." Wave it in the air, and it interprets your wandlike gestures. In normal use, shaking the phone twice ends a call. Draw a 3, and it types the digit. Make an X, and the phone generates the voice response "no." If you're listening to music on the built-in MP3 player, you can jerk the phone to the right to skip...
While this may seem fairly standard for a motion picture, it is a departure for director Danny Boyle, best known for the violent and disturbing films Trainspotting and 28 Days Later. What Millions lacks in drugs and violence, however, it makes up in charm and even sweetness...