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...time (either a flashback or a flash-forward) and the absurdly overused cliff-hanger cue. "If you say something cliff-hangery on the show, all the shrill, like crazy dramatic music comes on, and it cuts to black," notes one of the characters. "It's like the coolest thing ever...
...examination of the board's activities may take some time and may set a precedent for how executives' health issues get disclosed. And it will certainly spark a wide debate about whether Apple did the right thing...
...useful word completely. We don't organize by planet status. We organize by what objects look like compared to what other objects look like. So we look at the family photo of the solar system, and in it, you have the sun, which obviously is its own thing. Then you have the terrestrials - Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, all small, all rocky, all dense. Then you have the asteroid belt - craggy chunks of rock and metal - orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Tens of thousands of them, likely hundreds of thousands of them. Then you have Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune...
...around, there's a sense of pop culture trying to feel its way toward the next thing, the new tone, whatever it might be. On 24, Jack Bauer is getting philosophical about torture. American Idol is trying to be nicer to its bad singers. Even Clint Eastwood's hit Gran Torino--in which a racist retiree snarls at Asian gang bangers to "get off my lawn" as he protects a young Hmong neighbor--is ultimately not the reactionary return of Dirty Harry but the 20th century grouchily giving way to the 21st...
...cuts of at least 15%. But it avoids pink slips and allows TSMC to hang on to valuable staff. "This is a way that allows us to make the best of a bad situation," says TSMC spokesman Michael Kramer. "I'm not going to say it's a good thing, but there are worse things that could've happened, such as a pay cut with no leave, or layoffs...