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...SpaceNavigator isn't a joystick, nor is it a trackball. It is a wheel, anchored to a rewardingly heavy base, that you twist, tilt, nudge, press and pull to move up, down, forward and back, and also pitch and yaw. (Sorry, aviators: no roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 3DConnexion SpaceNavigator | 12/29/2006 | See Source »

...Once he made it official, Edwards' campaign pitch got even more unorthodox. He started his short speech by saying Americans needed to "take action" in a way that almost seemed to minimize the importance of whoever might be President - now or in 2009. "We want people in this campaign to actually take action now," Edwards said, "not later, not after the election. We don't want to hope that whoever's elected the next leader of the United States of America is going to solve all our problems for us. Because that will not happen." He encouraged people to volunteer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Kickoff for John Edwards 2.0 | 12/29/2006 | See Source »

...might even learn something. For aside from the cinnamon and schmaltz that infuse many carols, the great American Christmas songbook affords young people their most sustained exposure to the vocal skills of the early to mid 20th century. I speak of pitch, clarity, enunciation, the artfully natural wedding of lyric and melody, intellect and emotion - what used to be called singing. Ignore the lofty, dewy texts of these songs, if you want, and attend to the care the singers invest in the succession of notes, the chain of aural imagery. You might ask: Where has this been all my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 12 CDs of Christmas | 12/22/2006 | See Source »

...universal appeal: in the play the brothers are working on now, a sales clerk is trying to sell Noah a new brand of potato chips. Some sweepstakes coupons come with every purchase, and the grand prize is a yacht. Might come in quite handy, goes the salesman's pitch, they say a deluge is coming. Skeptical, Noah buys a pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two for the Road | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

According to Lue, faculty members can also pitch ideas for programs and work with the summer school to implement them...

Author: By K. blair Harshbarger and Andrew Okuyiga, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: A Foreign Affair | 12/12/2006 | See Source »

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