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...chance to dress up as lemurs as they swing alongside real ones, or build a house made of sticks for an armadillo. The Dallas zoo opened a similar hands-on facility last year that includes a nature exchange where kids can swap their favorite rock for a snazzier sea shell. Seattle has plans for its play zoo, called Discovery Village, to open...
...shell game gets ridiculous in its treatment of corporate taxes. One provision delays the collection of $33 billion of estimated corporate taxes from Sept. 15 to Oct. 1 this year. Why? By pushing the collection into the next fiscal year, the bill makes this year's immediate relief look larger. "Republicans had to make sure it looked less dangerous by packing it with every kind of gimmick and sleight of hand I have ever seen," fumes Rangel...
...week, you'll recall, was oppressively humid, and I decided it would be good to cool off after practice. Well, the decision was a lot easier to make when Damon Rainie, my old roommate, suggested that I jump over the Currier women who were getting ready to launch their shell into the Charles River. So I stripped off my clothes (except for the bathing suit) and sprinted down the boathouse, safely clearing the bow of the Currier boat on my way into the effluvium we have all come to love after four years in Cambridge...
...them than us--them being the Japanese civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, us being the American troops (Fussell among them) poised to invade the Japanese home islands in 1945. Citing ex-Marine E.B. Sledge's eyewitness account of Pacific combat, Fussell writes of Marines "sliding under fire down a shell-pocked ridge, slimy with mud and liquid dysentery...into the maggoty Japanese and U.S.M.C. corpses at the bottom, vomiting as the maggots burrowed into their own foul clothing...
...missing the point. Wearable computers, when they are mass-produced, will be a consumer product, not just a work tool. Their allure will lie not in their utility but in their look and feel. Nobody needs a personal computer to be tangerine-colored and lodged in a translucent plastic shell, but try telling that to the millions who have bought Apple's iMac. The academicians are also under-estimating the attraction of ultra-portability. In the public consciousness, wearables are the logical future - the destiny, if you like - of computing. Think of all those neat-o gadgets that populate...