Word: slating
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Herbert Demel wistfully recalls his first car--a slate-gray Alfa Sud that got him obsessed with engines and racing. His parents tried to break the spell by dispatching him to a race track outside Vienna to do lube jobs for three months. The move backfired. "I loved it," says Demel, 48. Today he doesn't just mess around with cars. He's about to transform how they are made...
...commission also announced that six tickets of candidates have been certified. The slate of president candidates and their running-mates, respectively, are Rohit Chopra ’04 and Jessica R. Stannard-Friel ’04, David M. Darst ’04 and Shira S. Simon ’04, Albert J. Lim ’04 and Seth N. Kisch ’04, Jason L. Lurie ’05 and Alexander S. Misono ’04, Hunter A. Maats ’04 and John Paul M. Fox ’04, and Fred...
...people to get together and socialize. It's built right into the simulated psychology. Call it "simbiosis": your Sim won't be happy if it's not hanging out with other Sims. In The Sims Online, nice guys really do finish first. "We're giving the players a blank slate, a blank world," says Wright. "We want people to try to build a large, diverse world, so we're tailoring our reward structures to encourage the kind of world people will want to be in." You can see the outlines of a fantasy America emerging, one that's touchingly utopian...
...C100, the new tablet PC from Acer. Reasonably lightweight (about 2 kg), with a 20-GB hard drive and an 800-MHz Pentium III processor, the TravelNote looks and performs like a normal laptop computer. The screen, however, swivels around and folds back over the keyboard, creating a writing slate. A stylus serves as both a pen for note taking, and as a mouse for operating programs. Using the machine's built-in Wi-Fi (wireless-fidelity) link, for example, you can write a URL into the Internet Explorer browser to visit a website from the comfort of your...
...Undergraduate Council last night approved its first slate of student group aid this semester but tabled two grants to religious student groups after one representative questioned the groups’ policies for selecting leaders...