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...Also hitting the market are organic LEDs, or OLEDs, which are sure to render CRTs and LCDs obsolete once engineers overcome limits to size and longevity. They’re thinner and more energy efficient than LCDs and have a greater range of colors, including true black. The New York Times said Sony’s XEL-1 was like “looking out a window. With the glass missing.” OLEDs have much superior viewing angles, so that, unlike the typical laptop LCD screen, they won’t go dark when you turn your head...
...Waunakee, Wis., company started in 1976 by Oscar Meyer, of hot-dog fame. (The connection: pigs naturally produce proteins used in pharmaceuticals.) CZ-SPL makes a key ingredient, what in the pharmaceutical business is called an active pharmaceutical ingredient, or API, for a drug called heparin, a blood thinner that is widely used by kidney-dialysis and postsurgical patients to prevent blood clots. The team found little unusual and gave the facility a clean bill of health...
...thinks they've done to the country he loves. It's the American way for the people out of power to criticize the ones in power. It's certainly the way of the American left. Whereas the right usually stays loyal to its public officials through thin and thinner, the left often creates a Platonic ideal that few politicians, schooled in the art of compromise, can satisfy...
...Tibet's current place under the People's Republic of China and full independence. He now, however, views this "middle way" approach as having failed to produce "positive results," and he is therefore changing his course of action - by stepping back. "My trust in the Chinese government has become thinner, thinner, thinner," the Dalai Lama said to reporters on Monday, reiterating statements he has made over the past week that his faith in Beijing is waning. "I cannot take direct responsibility dealing with the Chinese government," he said. "If I say, 'I think this is better or that is better...
Harvard’s checkbooks may be fat, but its students aren’t. Harvard’s high proportion of student athletes and a general perfectionist attitude have likely spared it from the national obesity epidemic—look around any dining hall to see students noticeably thinner than the national average. Of course, the same factors that keep us fit also leave us vulnerable to eating disorders. However, HUDS’s recent decision to remove nutritional information from dining hall placards will not only serve as an ineffective means of fighting eating disorders, but also deprive...