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...need to fix it throughout this century. This is just a very, very slow process, and one where we have to start thinking...
...would have thought of it long ago, and you'd be right. "This technique was first proposed back in 1978," says Craig Mackay, of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge, the Lucky Camera's lead scientist, "and we first tried it in 1985." Back then, though, detectors were very slow; it took 10 seconds to snap each exposure, and it took all night on a supercomputer to make one usable image. "Now," says Mackay, "we can make images in real time...
Enter motorbike medics, who flit between slow-moving cars and speed around stopped traffic. The two-wheeled first responders are dispatched from the 15 firehouses closest to São Paulo's main drags. Other cities employ moto-medics--London, Kuala Lumpur and Miami, among them--but in Brazil the program holds special significance since there is no centralized 911 and firefighters have become the go-to guys when accidents occur, perhaps because the country's health service is in disarray and the police are among the nation's least esteemed public servants. "People trust us," says fire department spokesman...
...stood there often, watching one of the greatest acts of mass transit performed daily, overwhelmed by movement: cars speeding by just a few feet below, bicycles making their way erratically across intersections, the groan of a cart piled high with trash, even the occasional horse-drawn vehicle making its slow way down the highway.And always, there was the city sprawl, stretching out into the interminable haze, while the unsteady bridge shook below my feet.It’s a sight to make any Modernist’s skin tingle, because the scene gives great artistic meaning to the states...
...named December Boys (for their birthdays) linked by the same distant desire of adoption by doting parents. When they are taken on holiday to a bucolic cove beside an unfamiliar seaside, they find themselves empowered—and sometimes divided—by the unbridled freedom. The pace is slow and episodic. The audience sees the predictable rifts arise between the boys—Maps (Daniel Radcliffe), Misty (Lee Cormie), Sparks (Christian Byers), and Spit (James Fraser)—as a desperate search to find stability tears them in different directions. Each struggle for emotional satiation ends...