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...obtain the pioneering images, technicians at the Prado used special cameras to take more than 8,200 photographs of the paintings over the course of three months. Those images were then connected and layered using the same Google Earth technology that allows a viewer to zoom in on a street or a house almost anywhere on the globe. (To see the works, users must download the Google Earth application, enter "Prado masterpieces" in the search window and then click on the icon representing the museum...
...market is whether it will ever completely recover. Cheap and functional cars have been in vogue for several years. PC consumers are moving to relatively inexpensive netbooks and smartphones. The margins on a $300 netbook don't match those of a $1.500 laptop with a dual processor and special video chip. (See TIME's Top 10 gadgets...
...from Thursday's lows would put the market back near the November bottom. For stock-market technicians, a so-called double bottom, or return to prior lows, can be a healthy sign of base-building, which can set the stage for a sustained advance. But there are special risks related to any such swoon this time around: Bank stocks are among the market's weakest, and a further drop in their shares could place these institutions in jeopardy. Further, another steep decline in stocks could trigger a new round of redemptions from hedge funds, which in turn could lead...
...problem is that the show is too determined to play up its oddity, down to having Tara change costume with every transformation, which actually detracts from Collette's amazing character shifts--she adopts a new personality just by changing expression--and makes Tara seem like a Tracey Ullman special. Tara has the potential to be a great comedy about identity, but it needs to be less self-conscious about its strangeness...
...assistance, invaded to topple an Islamist movement that controlled Mogadishu, and had been sheltering a handful of al-Qaeda operatives. Osama bin Laden's movement killed more than 200 people when they attacked two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and several small groups of U.S. special operations soldiers accompanied the Ethiopians in the hope that the invasion would flush local operatives out into the open. The Ethiopians drove out the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), but quickly became the target of the Islamist Shabaab insurgency that has raged ever since. Having gone in to provide a solution...