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Leonard Solomon, a project manager for the Anderson Research Group, a laboratory where Wilson worked as an undergraduate, continues to stay in touch with Wilson. “She wanted to be an astronaut way back then,” he said...
...least for as long as I've had my iPod Touch. I love iPods, and got the Touch in early 2009 (even though, for some psycho-consumerist reason, I've refused to buy an iPhone). I love the Touch's handiness and the fact that, beyond carrying my entire iTunes library of everything from Rachmaninoff to Lady Gaga, it also has the neat Amazon Kindle app that lets me upload War and Peace (or whatever book in my library I'm reading) and take it with me - palm-sized and backlit...
...iPad is much, much bigger than the Touch, and like the Touch only partially abled when away from wi-fi (a version of the iPad that connects to AT&T's 3G network will ship in about a month). But the extra real estate does make a difference. The Touch was convenient. The iPad is intimate. Its weight, though only about a pound and a half, gives it gravity and a sense that it should be more than simply useful. (See the unveiling of Apple's iPad...
...Sometimes you can't tell advertisement from original content - and I mean this in a good way. Nothing really intrudes on the experience. If you don't like what you see, swipe it away. But if it does interest you, you can be sure there's something you can touch to lead you deeper into a whole new world...
...babes, Charlie was Hugh Hefner as Philip Marlowe, and the bachelor father of his Police Academy hotties. Forsythe's function was essentially the same as the self-destructing message in Mission: Impossible - to describe this week's case, then get out of the way - and do it with a touch of class and a bit of the rogue. Much of his dialogue was blithely leering dialogue, but he lent it the airiness of a bon vivant's connoisseurship. A generation later he returned for the two Charlie's Angels movies, with Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy...