Word: touchings
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Joseph C. Gfaller ’01, one of Crawford’s blockmates at Harvard, said that despite not keeping in touch with Crawford since college, he was deeply saddened by her death...
While it is fascinating to see touch-screen technology used in the iPhone and other devices [June 25], a part of the population is greeting it with much distress: people who are blind. Equipping appliances such as microwaves and washing machines--not to mention voting machines--with touch screens will cause a "one step forward, two steps back" situation. If designers can figure out a way to not leave the blind behind, we can truly celebrate the technology of touch...
...Whether it is yesterday’s unfinished newspaper still sitting on my kitchen table, or a postcard from a war years past, I like to touch my news, hear it crinkle, feel its weight in my hands. If I rub my computer screen so lovingly, it just gets dirty...
...Support for Fretilin this time around was roughly half that amount, and the party is increasingly viewed as out of touch with East Timor's poverty-stricken masses. "In five years, Fretilin was not able to do anything to make this country better," says Lucia Lobato, a politician with the opposition Social Democratic Party. "People have lost patience...
That was The Pursuit of Happiness, a sweeping love story set in postwar New York City. It was more a romance than a thriller, and no U.S. publisher would touch it. "Then two things happened," says Kennedy. "First, I began to have success in Europe. Second, doors closed in New York." The novel thrived overseas, selling 350,000 copies in the U.K. alone. But to American publishers Kennedy was a loser...