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...reader allows you to bypass password protection and log in to the laptop, or even to websites, with a thumb swipe. And a nifty built-in business-card scanner lets you line up a card along the front edge of the machine, tilt the laptop's screen down and snap a picture of it; included with the laptop is software called Presto! BizCard that imports the text of the business card into your contacts file. There's also a Gobi chipset that allows you to connect to high-speed cellular networks, available by subscription in the U.S. from the likes...
...rather than deliberative reasoning. In trials the researchers vindicated their hypothesis: Almost 72 percent of Senate race outcomes were successfully predicted simply by showing a sample of the electorate pictures of the candidates for whom they could vote for milliseconds at a time, and asking them to make snap judgments on those candidates’ competence...
...Sometimes it’s a little bit disbelief. You know you want to make sure it didn’t cross the goal line. You keep looking, was there a flag? You want to believe it all, I mean it wasn’t until the last snap [that I believed].”Harvard had just completed a 15-play, 75-yard drive that culminated in a 3-yard touchdown pass from backup quarterback Liam O’Hagan to an open Matt Luft in the back of the endzone. O’Hagan’s entrance...
...quarter: High snap is fumbled by Brown, but Daugherty recovers and throws it out of the back of the end zone to avoid the loss. It's 3rd and 16 on the Harvard...
...glow of lights illuminates Harvard Stadium like a dream. Noise swells as the Crimson offense takes the field. Armanti Edwards steps under center; his breath, cloudy and heavy in the cold, is like the exhaust of a racecar. He surveys the field and barks an audible before taking the snap. Dropping back, he bounces slightly on his toes, poised, balanced, alert. Then, like tires hitting the pavement, he takes off downfield. He zigs toward the sideline, zags back to the middle of the field, dances past the secondary, and cartwheels into the end zone. The band trumpets his glory...