Word: straightaways
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...jump in straightaway, you'll be getting some "early" technology. It's a little slow starting up and shutting down, and you must have a high-definition TV with an HDMI input, or a DVI input that is HDCP compatible. Don't worry about what it all means, just pull out your TV's manual and wade through the acronyms until you find these. My plasma TV, a two-year-old Hitachi, just made the cut. With a little patience, I was able to get a beautiful picture, but when I switched video sources, the HD DVD player got confused...
...this world, nothing matters that does not have a camera pointed at it. When I ask Gabriel why it's useful to have Jolie as a spokeswoman, he is blunt. "Number one, you're here talking to me," he says. "Also, when she went to Sierra Leone with us, straightaway we got into the President's office, which would have been very hard without her." Ignore Kofi Annan all you want, but blow off Lara Croft at your peril...
...World Food Program (WFP) that was destined for hungry Somalis. Now back in his home country of Sri Lanka, Mahalingam, 58, related to TIME the saga of his 101-day ordeal as a captive of Somali pirates. It began, he says, with "the flash of 5 to 10 shots. Straightaway I knew it must be pirates." Before he could issue a distress signal, three fiber-glass speedboats with powerful outboard motors pulled alongside the Semlow. The pirates hooked a small metal ladder to the ship and scrambled aboard. "There were 15 to 20 men wearing shorts and T shirts," says...
...aerodynamics are so good, you can pretty much floor it all the time. "You're thinking about what you're going to have for dinner while you're sitting there," he says. Stock cars are heavier, 700-h.p. Neanderthals, custom-built throwback machines. "At the end of a straightaway, you've got to use the brakes and force 3,400 lbs. to change direction, which it doesn't want to do." And you've got other drivers who think nothing of sitting on your rear bumper, stealing your downdraft, making your car "loose" and sending you flying up the track...
...captains Anderson and Elsa O’Riain, seeded No. 1 in the doubles draw following impressive showings in this fall’s tournament circuit, cut through the first two rounds to move to the field of 16. “We didn’t really expect straightaway to play so well,” O’Riain said. “But we’ve gelled quickly [and] now we expect to win these matches here pretty comfortably.” The pairs of Mukundan-Peterzan and Schnitter-Wang also won both their matches yesterday...