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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...
...July, Brown, an astronomer at Caltech, made an announcement that took the debate to a whole new plane. Along with his colleague Chad Trujillo, Brown had found something very much like Pluto, only bigger, and last month he declared that the object known officially as 2003 UB313--and temporarily nicknamed Xena--has its own little moon. Suddenly, the question Tyson had raised to make a provocative educational point became something much larger: if Pluto is a planet, then Brown's new object must be one as well...
...long been a childhood rite of passage, up there with learning to tie your shoes. Yes, Pluto was always an oddball: not only is it tiny (two-thirds the size of our moon), but it has a weird, elongated orbit that is tilted at a sharp angle to the plane the other planets inhabit. Still, the gap in size between Pluto and the biggest asteroids was comfortably huge...
...remove it. Quintana apparently enjoyed such an adventure, and stuck another seed pod up her nose the next day in order to repeat it. Such moments provide a fuller range of emotional experiences than might be expected in a book about grief.Didion periodically references catastrophic tragedies (the 9/11 attacks, plane crashes, violence in Kirkuk) in order to explain her emotional state, saying that she can relate to family members of those who died in these sudden, unexpected events. While these references to large-scale devastation seem melodramatic at times, they still serve as a sort of tie to universal grief...
...poor, contrived conventions. (Honestly, does every girl talk to her new crush while taking a bubble bath?)Particularly disappointing is the way in which Drew and Claire’s first real connection is depicted: all-night phone conversations with random people who pestered you on the plane do not happen. Worse yet are the numerous occasions in which Claire attempts to take a “mental snapshot” of Drew and mimes an invisible camera. Such a cutesy representation of internal thought should never again be enacted on film—ever. Bloom and Dunst perform well...