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...Reader is about the size of a trade paperback, though thinner, and instead of a liquid-crystal display, its 6-in. screen uses E-Ink technology. Each of its finely packed pixels can be white or black but they don't shimmer or emit any light, so the experience is eerily like looking at paper, high in contrast and relaxing on the eye. The tradeoff is that E-Ink can't yet refresh fast enough to show video, and even scrolling or zooming is a complicated business, but that's not the purpose of the Reader. Even without a backlight...
...classes are large, larger than either students or faculty want,” Professor of Economics James H. Stock wrote in an e-mail. “So our challenge is to address the demand for secondary concentrations in a way that does not stretch our resources even thinner and thereby degrade the quality of education we provide to our undergraduates...
...hours, guaranteeing the playback of one or two, if not three full-length features. That also means 20 hours of music. The 30GB iPod ($249) has shorter battery life-3.5 hours of video or 14 hours of music-but it manages to outperform its predecessor while being 30% thinner...
...stay with the idea that most adults should be trying to get thinner. Even if it has no effect on weight, doing a little more exercise will probably improve health. But dieting is more problematic. As most people who've tried it will attest, dieting with a goal of achieving lasting weight loss is all but guaranteed to fail. According to the Eating Disorders Foundation of Victoria, 95% of people who go on weight-loss diets regain everything they've lost and more within two years. But why? Do all these people lack self-control? Highly unlikely. Proponents...
Most important, the Pearl is a model of consumer-friendly design. RIM says it's one of the smallest smart phones, and it's thinner than most dumb phones too. Our tests revealed surprisingly long battery life and surprisingly easy e-mail setup as well. We installed AIM, Gmail and Yahoo! and could view all incoming mail simultaneously or by account...