Word: soak
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Harvard students will have a chance to soak in some words of wisdom from a major international power broker on Thursday...
...return to the obnoxious days," says TIME Daily Washington reporter Declan McCullagh, "and the countersuit certainly doesn't seem to be a winner legally." But by aiming at the states -- claiming that they have no right to enforce federal antitrust law -- Microsoft has added a side issue that will soak up the states' limited resources and slow this case to a crawl. "The states will have to respond, and Microsoft will respond to that," says McCullagh. "It's gonna be a long trial...
...Russian subtitles. Hours on end they sit, watching-and learning. Dylan Mckay, the Fresh Prince and Kramer have a new job on their hands here: they are teaching English around the clock, more thoroughly and at a younger age than the Israeli school system manages to do. The children soak up the language and with it what they see as American styles, dress and mannerisms...
...will be voice recognition. The rudiments are already here but in primitive form. Ask a computer to "recognize speech," and it is likely to think you want it to "wreck a nice beach." But in a decade or so we'll be able to chat away and machines will soak it all in. Microchips will be truly embedded in our lives when we can talk to them. Not only to our computers; we'll also be able to chat with our automobile navigation systems, telephone consoles, browsers, thermostats, VCRs, microwaves and any other devices we want to boss around...
...soak up some moonlight by the River. Take in the stars...