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Directed by Wayne Kramer New Line Cinema 1 star In the sort of action movie where everybody is shooting and screaming all the time, it often gets difficult to tell the heroes from the villains. “Running Scared” thoughtfully makes it easy for us: The bad guys love to maim, torture, and kill kids. Can’t get enough of it, really. Fortunately, they never get their wish because the good guys are always right there to maim, torture and kill the bad guys—and anybody else who happens...
...saying, "So what? I can already do that with my $200 point-and-shoot camera." But one of the dirty little secrets of the digital SLR category is that, high-end or not, they physically couldn't do it until now. (The other secret is that they didn't do video - and they still don't.) The E-330's live view works because the camera has two image sensors. The sensors share the view from the lens using a network of mirrors, including a two-way mirror that both reflects light and passes it through. You don't notice...
...forced to use the optical viewfinder. Also, in low lighting, you'll get a clearer picture through the eyepiece than you will on the LCD. Nevertheless, it's a great help for people who want an upgrade but enjoy the LCD convenience of current point-and-shoot cameras...
...dimly lit Harvard basement, robots are on the move. They kick, shoot, pass, and score. And they may soon dominate the world—the soccer world, that is. Since last spring, the Cambridge Robotic Futbol Club (CRFC) has been creating a team of robots that can play soccer without any human involvement for 20 minutes. The club, which consists of 35 Harvard and MIT undergraduate robot enthusiasts, hopes to qualify for the international showdown of simulated soccer players: the RoboCup World Cup. “The ultimate goal of RoboCup is to create a team of robots that...
...Cohen says. “I took ‘States of Adolescent Adjustment’ spring of my freshman year and it talked about today’s adolescent eating disorders and today’s adolescent mental problems, and I was like, ‘Go shoot me!’” Disappointed, Cohen concentrated in English. She became a high-school English teacher after leaving Harvard, but again found herself less than satisfied. “I felt like I was always thinking about the next thing that had to be done. A friend...