Word: pointeres
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...Cusworth foul out in the game’s final minutes, the Crimson fought to a three point lead with under a minute left. But Cornell captain Lenny Collins kept his team alive by scoring eight straight Big Red points down the stretch, including an off-balance three pointer that tied the score at 77. Harvard couldn’t answer, and a put-back from forward Jason Hartford with a second left gave Cornell the 79-77 victory. The Crimson appeared to have sloughed off the effects of the bad trip to Ithaca the next weekend, as Harvard...
...with something that nobody in his right mind would recognize as video-game hardware at all: a short, stubby, wireless wand that resembles nothing so much as a TV remote control. Humble as it looks on the outside, it's packed full of gadgetry: it's part laser pointer and part motion sensor, so it knows where you're aiming it, when and how fast you move it and how far it is from the TV screen. There's a strong whiff of voodoo about it. If you want your character on the screen to swing a sword, you just...
...DIED. JUNE POINTER, 52, who, with her siblings, formed the Grammy-winning pop group the Pointer Sisters and recorded such '80s megahits as Jump (For My Love) and I'm So Excited; of cancer; in Los Angeles. The sisters' success waned after the 1983 release of their 3 million-selling album Break Out, and in 2003 June?who struggled with drug addiction and her mental health?was replaced by her niece...
DIED. June Pointer, 52, who, with her siblings, formed the Grammy-winning pop group the Pointer Sisters and recorded such '80s megahits as Jump (For My Love) and I'm So Excited; of cancer; in Los Angeles. The sisters' success waned after the 1983 release of their 3 million--selling album Break Out, and in 2003 June--who struggled with drug addiction and her mental health--was replaced by her niece...
...Homeschooling will never be the norm, but it's a pointer to the future of organized learning, argues researcher Barratt-Peacock. The days when the great storerooms of information were the university libraries are fading. The Internet has brought something approaching the totality of mankind's knowledge into the home, dismantling the barriers that limited people's choices about where and what they could study. In the new global village, Barratt-Peacock wonders, how long before a teenager in Christchurch, working from the computer in his bedroom, can attain a Harvard degree? "The idea of learning only in a large...