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...been dispelled with a Multi-Touch click. The vanguard of cell phones, laptops, and music players have finally achieved the sleek unity that is the iRevolution’s ultimate victory. And this revolution occurs at the crucial intersection of our crazed gadgetphilia and our intensifying demand to pump maximum efficiency into and out of every moment. The epic of our iCivilization shall read, to update Pope, “Music, cameras, and mobile phones lay separate hidden in the night; Jobs said, ‘Let iPhone be!’—And all was light...
Trying to map the brain has always been cartography for fools. Most of the other parts of the body reveal their workings with little more than a glance. The heart is self-evidently a pump; the lungs are clearly bellows. But the brain, which does more than any organ, reveals least of all. The 3-lb. lump of wrinkled tissue--with no moving parts, no joints or valves--not only serves as the motherboard for all the body's other systems but also is the seat of your mind, your thoughts, your sense that you exist at all. You have...
...around $2.25 a gallon on average, from a peak of just over $3 last summer. It's all good news for the economy, since lower energy prices traditionally help tame inflation and could ease pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. Paying less at the pump leaves motorists with more cash to spend on everything from movies to microwaves. And no one is happier than the airlines, whose cost of jet fuel has plummeted 11.5% in the last month alone...
...rarely been independent either of Russia's influence or foreign treasure hunters. Baku's lite included the Rothschilds during the 1890s, when Azerbaijan produced half the world's oil supply. Oil production slid steadily as the Soviets let the infrastructure rot. Today hundreds of rusted oil derricks and pump jacks, many predating World War II, cram the seafront outside Baku like a scrap-metal forest, with old Soviet tractors turning several wells. The astonishing sight was memorialized in the 1999 James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough. Towering over the area now is a 16,000-ton water...
...perimeter attack. The strategy helped to contain the long-range jumpshooting of captain Jim Goffredo, who finished with 18 points on just 5-of-12 shooting and 2-of-7 from behind the arc. But it also opened up driving lanes for Housman, who used a steady diet of pump fakes and pull-up jumpers to break down Vermount in a game that amounted to a war of attrition. “If they’re gonna play me up that tight, I’m definitely going to try to take over,” he said. Housman...