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HDTV has been around, at least in concept, since the '60s, and everyone who has seen it agrees that it's a joy to watch. You can literally see each bead of sweat rolling off a player onscreen. The format's adoption, however, has been slowed by a broadcasting industry that has billions of dollars invested in the old ways of doing TV. Now comes Cuban, who has a proven eye for the next hot technology. He knows when to invest and--rarest of gifts--when to sell. After creating Broadcast.com to transmit radio programs over the Internet, Cuban sold...
...With swipe card access, you can tell who came in and at what time, so you can track down anyone,” said Bloodwell, who has twice had a pair of Harvard-issued sweat pants taken over the past month...
...routine can also sap the life out of a team. When a lineup lacks fire and urgency—when opponents are able to make it through nine innings without breaking a sweat in the field—games drag on without the promise of the late-inning rally that is always theoretically possible in the absence of a clock. Games go on until they’re done, not until they’ve become something. Hit the field, play the game, maybe win, go home. Routine...
Yuna is the requisite romantic lead. We first see her swooning beautifully in the doorway of the Chamber of Trials. Dewy with sweat, she collapses into the arms of a burly guardian, exalting breathily: “I’ve done it! I’ve become a summoner!” Sadly, the heroes of Final Fantasy seem to grow more androgynous, be they taciturn, long-lashed fighters or spunky, spikey-haired pickpockets. Role-playing games have a girl-friendly reputation, so it helps to have characters both genders can identify with. (Heaven forbid, of course, a female...
...insisting that “the artistic temperament has no gender,” the teacher undermines his own efforts to evade the question when he immediately directs another student to read aloud one of the aforementioned poet’s works, entitled “The sweat of the young working boy stiffens my resolve...