Word: titanium
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...Eastlund and her husband Dale faced a terrible choice. They could do nothing and hope that the aneurysm would never start to leak. Or she could get the standard treatment, first performed in 1937, in which a neurosurgeon drills a hole in the skull and puts a clip (usually titanium) around the blister-like pouch. Or she could try something new: a procedure called coiling, approved...
...claim it must expand its market share “or die.” Its new operating system, OS X, is the sleekest, most stable, most intuitive consumer OS ever made. Every reviewer in the computer trade press swoons over its hardware—the iBook, the Titanium PowerBook, and especially the new iMac. And its software strategy, built around the Macintosh as a “digital hub,” has produced a string of successful, free multimedia applications like iTunes and iPhoto. The result: despite a meager market share of 4.5 percent, Apple, like Dell, actually...
Rather than give his O.K., he went home from work early that day and summoned Ive, the amiable genius who also designed the original iMac, the other-worldly iPod music player, the lightweight but heavy-duty titanium PowerBook and the ice-cube-inspired Cube desktop, to name but a few of his greatest hits. As they walked through the quarter-acre vegetable garden and apricot grove of Jobs' wife Laurene, Jobs sketched out the Platonic ideal for the new machine. "Each element has to be true to itself," Jobs told Ive. "Why have a flat display if you're going...
...correspondents, CNN's CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR is "second-rate," parachuting into war zones "kitted out in flak jackets"; MSNBC's ASHLEIGH BANFIELD is undergoing "a complex learning process" on air, starring in the story by dyeing her blond hair brown. "Despicable!" Banfield says, comparing talk of her looks and $400 titanium-framed glasses to how the Taliban treats Afghan women. At least when Dan Rather wrapped himself in mufti to report from Afghanistan, he only had to live down the nickname "Gunga...
Hate ironing? A fashion house in Florence, Italy, has developed a wrinkle-free shirt that also makes a distinctive fashion statement. The sheer, silver-hued Oricalco is made of titanium-alloy fibers interwoven with nylon. Just toss the shirt (shown here wrinkled on one side) in your suitcase before a trip, then take it out and blow it with your hair dryer to dissolve the creases. (A second version rolls up its own sleeves on hot days to save you the trouble...