Word: sharp
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...forget about phone calls. Look at the video, which is impressively crisp and sharp. This is the first time the hype about "rich media" on a phone has actually appeared plausible. Look at the e-mail client, which handles attachments, inline images and HTML e-mails as adroitly as a desktop client. Look at the Web browser, a modified version of Safari that displays actual Web pages, not a teensy, deformed version of the Web. There's a Google Maps application that's almost worth the price of admission...
...journals do publish industry-funded science as long as it meets the publications' quality standards. Those standards require scientists to disclose any potential conflicts of interest. But compliance is generally based on the honor system, leaving scientists to interpret the journal policies themselves. (The PloS Medicine paper noted a sharp uptick in the number of articles citing potential conflicts over the five-year study period - a trend Ludwig attributes to more stringent journal standards and better self-policing among scientists...
...game turned on the Crimson’s second power play, technically four seconds after the man advantage had expired. As the Princeton defense was resetting, Harvard cycled the puck down to sophomore Jenny Brine near the right post. Brine beat Tigers goalkeeper Brittany Parisi with a sharp wrister, giving the Crimson a 1-0 lead and pushing the forward’s nation-leading totals to 20 goals and six game-winners...
...next day as rumors of a new attacks spread. Buses remained in their depots. Many people, petrified of getting caught in the crossfire, locked their doors and sat at home. The federal government agreed to send reinforcements and Cabral publicly acknowledged Rio faces a serious problem; that was a sharp contrast to his predecessors, whose consistent denials that Rio is no more dangerous than London or New York beggared belief...
...Internet is affecting pretty much everything about the news business. Today our print magazine and TIME.com are complementary halves of the TIME brand. Starting on Jan. 8, you will see a different TIME.com We've given the site a long-overdue face-lift, and you will find a sharp, dynamic, constantly updated news site within a new but familiar red border. You'll see more space to show off our world-class photography, our superb writers and columnists, and now you can start your day by checking our news blog, The Ag, which smartly aggregates and summarizes the most important...