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Cross Talk You're on vacation in China, trying to get directions to a hotel, when you realize you've left your Mandarin phrase book on the plane. Fortunately, you have your Pocket PC, equipped with IBM's Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator. MASTOR recognizes both Mandarin and English, automatically translating what it hears into the other tongue, so two people who speak different languages can have a conversation. In a TIME test, when told the phrase "I would like to rent a motorboat," MASTOR translated it audibly and flashed a picture of a boat onscreen. Although...
When Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty in 1964, that Texas President aimed to bring support to the underprivileged and help them climb out of poverty. Bush, however, brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "war on poverty"--it now means war on the poor. And he has done it by letting corporations and the wealthy help themselves to billions from the nation's coffers...
...play a few more pentatonic licks, particularly on such blues-based tunes as “I Don’t Need No Doctor” or “You Don’t Know Me”. Occasionally, he would oblige with a more traditional phrase, but he seemed almost self-conscious about stepping out of his neo-jazzman role, as if the Regattabar crowd were only there to see him play masturbatory solos and twitchingly manipulate various effects pedals. Versace seemed to suffer from a similar affliction; it often felt as if he was merely trying...
...Taylor reportedly said that Potter is “not the only gay in the village”—a phrase stolen from the popular comedy “Little Britain.” He later said that he was joking and that he did not mean to question Potter’s sexuality...
...just wasn’t that sweet,” he wrote in an e-mail. He prefers the innovative approach of the College: instead of advocating for a big cliché student space, Harvard College administrators want to re-invent the phrase. “The word ‘student center’ is a nebulous term,” Haan says. According to his office, Harvard is already on its way to having one. “If you think about a student center, Harvard has all the components—just spread out over campus...