Word: shelfful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hile copyright law might prohibit students from dropping by with scanners, it doesn’t stop them from noting what books are on the shelf and how much they cost,” wrote law school professor John G. Palfrey ’94, visiting Berkman fellow Wendy M. Seltzer ’96, and Angela Kang, then a second-year law student...
...qualities of a real book that this piece of technology could never capture.Real books have a physical presence that we have to hold and with which we sometimes grapple or “quarrel.” They have a distinctive smell, and picking an old book off the shelf, you can find notes and underlinings from when you first read it. As your understanding of literature and the world grows, your books mature with you. Yes, the Kindle has an auto-scroll feature, but it’s not going to help the words leap off the page...
...inspired by a character in a Miyazaki animated film named Kiki, a 13-year-old witch-in-training who flies away from home with her talking cat named Jiji and a large red bow. Indeed, she seems to have as many interests as she has bows on her bow shelf. This year she is taking classes to get her license for ham radio, a type of radio communications popular amongst hobbyists. After graduation, she plans to work in a nanotechnology lab at UCLA. “I really like tiny, tiny things,” she says, referencing an animation...
...single digits," according to Storch. In the Phillipsburg Toys "R" Us, for example, manager Mark Schantz estimated that the "R" Market took up just 1,300 of the store's 30,000 square feet - that's just 4.3%. Storch also insists that the company won't clear shelf space dedicated to toys in order to build these mini-supermarkets. Instead, Toys "R" Us will cease selling clothes for kids over the age of 4. The company will use that space for the "R" Markets and realign aisles to sell even more toys. "It essentially replaces an unproductive business," Storch says...
...they did in the halcyon precable days. One is by programming series, like Idol and Dancing with the Stars, that are essentially sporting events. That is, they are simple to follow, they can be enjoyed by a wide demographic and age range, and - most important - they have no shelf life. There are winners and losers, and spoilers abound the next day. So you watch them that night, as they happen - not on DVR or Hulu - or you might as well not watch them at all. And that means you watch them with commercials, without which network TV becomes a charitable...