Word: tablets
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Some products respond to consumers' needs; others, like Sony's airboard, seek to create them. Like sending e-mails from the pool, or curling up in bed with your favorite sitcom. This futuristic gadget combines the functions of a television, a dvd player and the Internet into a portable tablet the size of a place mat. If it catches on, it could change the concept of being digital at home...
...years, the stone tablet stood on the outskirts of Jedwabne, a memorial to the former Jewish residents of the small Polish town who were killed by the Nazis in World War II. But the memorial was a lie. On a July day in 1941, 1,600 Jews were murdered in Jedwabne in a swift, brutal and barbaric pogrom. Some were clubbed to death, others drowned; the head of one young Jewish girl was cut off and kicked. Mothers were beaten to death with their babies in their arms. As darkness fell, 1,500 Jews were forced into a barn, which...
Whoever thought a plaque could cause such a stir. On Feb. 9, a bronze tablet was unveiled in the New Hampshire State House. On the plaque a rebellious clenched fist emerged from the background, and the words "Voluntarios Internacionales" circled above a globe wrapped in a star. Just hours after its unveiling, the memorial was removed to the cheers of its opponents...
...should stop whatever you are doing and call 911 (driving yourself to the hospital is not recommended). Avoid any physical exertion that could put more stress on your heart. If heart disease or angina has previously been diagnosed, you may have medications such as nitroglycerin on hand. A nitroglycerin tablet placed under the tongue can provide quick relief by opening narrowed coronary arteries as well as other blood vessels throughout the body. Many doctors instruct patients to chew an aspirin, which thins the blood and helps prevent the clotting that can lead to a heart attack or stroke...
...hard not to get a sobering sense of the impending death of traditional, text-based linear narrative. Will generations to come ever know the delights of picking up a good book and reading it from start to finish? Or will they rather skim through it on their tablet PCs, Speeder Reading what the computer has predetermined to be the best bits based on their previous preferences, choosing alternative endings, letting the robot dog finish it for them...