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Digital cameras today have large preview screens. Gone are those hard-to-use tiny buttons and dials and those confusing icons. Replacing them are touch-control screens with plain-English menus. Even sophisticated digital cameras offer a "no brains" mode; the only things you need do are frame the shot and push the button. David Henderson, 62, of Alexandria, Va., remembers his early digital cameras. "They gave you a picture that looked like it was taken off a television set," he recalls. "Today's cameras are so good, they give anybody a chance to be a darn good photographer...
Human beings have spent 99 percent of their existence as hunter-gatherers, a profession for which they remain genetically adapted. The distinction between hunters and gatherers is, for the most part, a sexual one: 50,000 years ago, men single-mindedly focused on their prey in the sub-Saharan plain while women became adept at multi-tasking, gathering a variety of foods and ensuring the safety of their offspring. Our current gender-stratified social system did not emerge from a philosophical abyss; it evolved over tens of thousands of years as a function of the behavioral characteristics that allowed...
...conservative as any traditional Easterner. Their reaction confirmed that a strong psychological barrier between West and East still exists. Anis Alam Saeed Karachi The Secrets of Ambition Staying power is important, but success has many more elements than ambition [Feb. 13]. Talent, vision and just plain luck play a role too. Perhaps the greatest ambition a person can have is to be a complete human being. That's what I will teach my children. Todd R. Lockwood South Burlington, Vermont, U.S. I wish that your article had featured ordinary folks whose ambition drove them to be successful physicians, caregivers, inventors...
...midday), salmon (103 IU per oz., or 28 g), fortified milk (12.5 per fl. oz. [30 ml]), fortified orange juice (12.5) ? Calcium (1,000 mg to 1,500 mg needed daily): Atlantic sardines (108 mg per oz. [28 g]), canned salmon (68), low-fat plain yogurt (52), tofu (30), canned white beans (21) and regular skim milk...
...still under investigation. His immediate family, including his adored wife and son living in exile in Russia, did not attend his funeral. And the remnants of his once all-powerful party put him in the ground in the dark, not in some grand presidential tomb but in a plain grave beneath a 100-year-old linden tree in his sooty Serbian hometown of Pozarevac. A brass band, made up of retired members of the Serb military, played a mournful march, as a handful of the faithful tried to recapture his former glory in speeches blending his trademark nationalist rhetoric with...