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...which it left prisoners. The case was narrow enough that its effect was merely to overturn a single law in a single state, but the court's distaste for the idea of solitary was clear. "The justices saw it as a form of what some people now call no-touch torture," says Alfred W. McCoy, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of the book A Question of Torture. "It sends prisoners in one of two directions: catatonia or rage...
Jaguar spent no less effort improving the six-speed transmission. There are three modes: automatic, sport and manual (using the shift paddles). In manual, according to Jaguar, the gears respond to the driver's touch in 600 milliseconds, and the sensation is pure greased lightning. Sport mode feels silky smooth too. Overall, the car isn't as lithe or fun to drive as a Porsche 911 with a manual stick shift. But Jaguar has concluded that its core market is drivers who want a balance of performance and luxury, and in that respect the XKR hits its mark...
...seminars and on-the-mountain clinics, tailoring ads to a woman's sensibilities or designing stylish, high-performance equipment fitted to the female physique, many of the nation's 478 ski resorts, as well as skimakers like Head and Rossignol, are doubling down to persuade newcomers and veterans to "touch more powder," as the Swiss say, so the industry can touch more revenue...
...that is an illusion. The mirror is really a pool of liquid mercury in a shallow wood container. A touch would send ripples racing across its surface, and it must always aim straight up to retain its curvature. As the container is slowly rotated on a turntable; making one revolution every six seconds, the mercury rises gently toward the edges and dips in the middle, the way coffee does when it is stirred in a cup. In perfect deference to the laws of physics, the metal's highly reflective surface takes the form of a parabola, the shape of solid...
Rudd's team is a little fresher than Beazley's. But Labor's message is essentially the same: Howard's government is tired, it has lost touch with Middle Australia, its changes to workplace relations are extreme, it has neglected the environment, and the country's future wealth will be at risk when the resources boom ends. Somehow, with a mix of clich?s ("Australia has reached a fork in the road") and slogans ("China's quarry and Japan's beach"), Rudd has managed to "cut through"?the dream of political word wranglers. Inevitably, Rudd's success so far has elicited...