Word: sharpers
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...even sharper conflict is being stoked by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, an advocate of what he calls "21st century socialism." Chavez has come to the summit vowing to "bury" the FTAA, and he's even attending a counter summit of protestors opposing free trade. Indeed, thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Mar del Plata for the summit, far out of earshot, let alone sight, of the Sheraton Hotel where Mr. Bush is staying and holding many of his meetings. When I asked Bush at a quick press availability about how Americans should think of Chavez and what...
Drum roll please…after much anticipation it’s finally here—“The Big Lebowski” Collectors Edition DVD. If you haven’t been eagerly awaiting the arrival of this new DVD with a sharper picture and new Jeff Bridges photography, stop where you are. This story—of a former hippie’s (Jeff Bridges) hectic trip to discover the culprit who stole his rug and kidnapped the trophy wife of a millionaire with the same name—is a must see and must see again...
...project—the first of its kind at the College—reflects Harvard’s attempt to create a community of students that exceeds its campus boundaries, according to a press release. The high-definition project—which employs recent technology to transmit an image sharper and wider than traditional recording—comes as the result of a joint effort by the University provost’s office, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and documentary producer David Patterson, who audited the course three years...
...painstakingly, exhaustively re-engineered. Older iPods (except for the low-capacity iPod Shuffle) have miniature hard drives in them, but the Nano is built around a chunk of solid-state Flash memory. The screen is all new too. Because it's smaller, the Nano's screen has to be sharper to be readable. (It ended up being so sharp, it shows one line of text more than the Mini's screen does. In color...
...Designed the First Eye? The eye couldn't possibly be the product of accidental mutations, say Darwin's critics. Sure, a bird with sharper eyes might catch more prey and have more offspring, but where did the first eye come from? How could a process of gradual improvements produce a complex organ that needs all its parts-pinhole, lens, light-sensitive surface-in order to work? It's no accident, says Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box, that the eye resembles a camera, which everybody instantly recognizes as a product someone designed. "If it looks, walks and quacks...