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...developments ranging from flaws in the space program to South Korea's rapid advances in the field of cloning were cited as examples that the U.S. is losing its edge. Bush's comments on intelligent design were the No. 1 topic for bloggers for days afterward. "It sends a signal to other countries because they're rushing to gain scientific and technological leadership while we're getting distracted with a pseudoscience issue," warned Gerry Wheeler, executive director of the 55,000-member National Science Teachers Association in Arlington, Va. "If I were China, I'd be happy...
...undergraduate at Stanford more than 10 years ago, when Rice was provost there.) In person, Rice has a knack for immediately putting others at ease, asking about their lives before the conversation inevitably turns to hers. She fields questions by whispering, "Yeah," to signal she understands, then launches into answers so fluent that they almost sound rehearsed. It helps that she's working before everyone else: when she's in Washington, Rice rises at 4:45 a.m. and works out on the elliptical machine she keeps in her apartment at the Watergate. She eats a small breakfast...
...Slingbox definitely does its part to dumbfound. It's not a DVD player, or a cable box, or a video recorder like TiVo. It's a little manager, shaped like a brick of gold bullion, that takes video sources like cable TV, TiVo and DVD, and sends the signal to your PC. What's crazy is that it doesn't matter if your PC is in the next room or in Singapore-you'll get your video...
...about networking. The best way to connect a Slingbox to your router (besides plugging it in directly) is via a powerline Ethernet bridge, like the Netgear XE102 ($60 each). You actually need two-one to connect to the Slingbox in your TV room, and another to pick up the signal in the room where your router is. The setup guide covers all of the bases, but when you get to the part about configuring Slingbox to be accessed from the wide-open Internet, pay close attention. The good news is that while most companies would just expect you to contact...
...Ironically, the most trouble you can run into is if you have one of the latest high-definition cable boxes. Telling an HD box to send out the old-style analog TV signal required by the Slingbox can be daunting, and in some cases, next to impossible...