Word: outletting
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...Fuel cells promise to unhitch us from the electrical grid, and that's good. We'll never have to grope for a hotel-room outlet again, and no more waiting for batteries to recharge, either. But details on how costly the devices will be to own and operate are scarce, and there are potential drawbacks. Will there be maintenance hassles? (Batteries are, after all, wonderfully simple.) Casio's laptop power plant is fueled by small methanol cartridges that are replaced when the liquid is spent. Will we want to carry spare fuel cans around with us? Will airlines allow them...
...temporarily shut down because a screening machine was unplugged. Even more annoying, the problem can be solved by a simple $29.95 piece of hardware. After one such disruption two weeks ago, an airline-industry executive went to Home Depot, bought a device that locks a plug into an outlet and gave it to an official of the new Transportation Security Administration. Rather than buy the devices for all the airports that need them, however, the TSA simply suggested that its employees purchase the device and get reimbursed later...
...Beautiful Mind, for instance, Nash claims to “solve” his schizophrenia with the same part of his brain that he uses to solve mathematical puzzles. In her psychoanalysis of Virginia Woolf, Dalsimer provides a thoughtful, elegant exploration of the idea that a creative outlet can enable an artist to escape her inner life...
...News staff members to hear it, especially from the lips of a powerful and secretive (or at least anonymous) network executive, Nightline does have a relevance problem. Television has changed significantly since the show debuted during the Iranian hostage crisis 22 years ago. Cable news provides a 24-hour outlet for wonky debate, and the Internet brings headlines home in something akin to real time. Koppel and his producers have wisely adjusted the show's format, shifting from headline news to more in-depth, prerecorded pieces. "The result has been a set of brilliant programs," raves Iger...
Impressionist Still Life brings to life Edouard Manet’s claim that “a painter can say all he wants to with fruit or flowers.” One example of still life as an outlet for personal expression is “Hollyhocks in a Copper Bowl” (1872), painted by Courbet when he was in prison. The flowers, a symbol of death in Dutch painting, emerge drooping and threatening from a black background, creating a horrible effect unexpected in still life...