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...could have waited, I would have bought the HiFD. The drive I saw was fast enough to handle full-motion video, which was impressive; and with 200 MB of space, you would have room for nearly 20 minutes of it--or 88 copies of War and Peace. But Sony had promised the drive by this spring. And when you're hiding e-mail from your kids, who can wait...
...tend to drive your car too far into the garage--say, into the bikes or the washing machine--or not far enough to clear the door, there's help in sight. Park Zone from Exeter Technologies in New York City is a $100 ultrasonic motion sensor that mounts on the garage wall. It uses green, yellow and red lights to guide drivers as surely and smoothly as if they were docking a passenger...
With the advent of the '60s and the Vietnam War, Chaplin's American fortunes turned. He orchestrated a festival of his films in New York in 1963. Amid the loudest and longest ovation in its history, he accepted a special Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1972. There were dissenters. Governor Ronald Reagan, for one, believed the government did the right thing in 1952. During the 1972 visit, Chaplin, at 83, said he'd long ago given up radical politics, a welcome remark in a nation where popular favor has often been synonymous with depoliticization...
...order to be able to break down the complex motion of running into its component parts, Sternlight used a treadmill with a force plate embedded under the tread. The signal from the force plate was sent to a computer to measure and study the different variables that influence running speed...
DANIEL KADLEC, one of our two personal-finance columnists, joined TIME two years ago and launched a popular column called "Money in Motion." He had spent the previous decade covering Wall Street and investing for USA Today and other newspapers, winning several awards. He and his wife have three young children and, he says, "worry endlessly about how we're going to pay for their college educations. We've laid that task squarely at the foot of the stock market." His column this week finds investing opportunities in the antitrust suit against Microsoft...