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Amazon today unveiled Kindle 2, the next iteration of its pioneering e-reader. While fans clamoring for a radical overhaul will doubtless be disappointed - the first-gen Kindle was awkwardly designed and limited by its black-type-on-gray E-Ink display - Amazon has given the device a modest redesign that appears to address some of its more glaring problems. (See the top 10 gadgets...
...purchases, gets around the difficult job of having the government figuring out just what these bonds are worth. But it is not clear it will. Even if private investors name the prices, the government will still have to certify the values are reasonable before providing insurance or some other type of incentive to get the purchases complete, if it cares about not throwing more taxpayer money down the rat hole...
...concluded that “the time was right for a significant rebalancing of our staff and our functions.” But she added that the analysis was conducted more as a standard procedure than as a response to unprecedented losses in the endowment. “This type of thinking and rebalancing is done, and should be done, continuously, in organizations that are and that want to stay at the top of their field, through all kinds of market cycles and economic conditions,” she wrote. Because of the recent losses in the endowment...
...technique requires practitioners to have extensive training and specialized facilities that are only available at elite hospitals. The findings, published in the journal Nature Materials last month, seek to combat those tumors that fool the immune system’s normal process of identifying dangerous substances. Normally, a particular type of immune cell—called a dendritic cell—will search the body for foreign matter, targeting it for destruction by T cells, another component of the immune system. But some tumors manage to escape detection, enabling them to grow uncontrollably, said Nathaniel D. Huebsch...
...Every kind of film critic was represented: the loves-it-all USA Today type, the can’t-stand-anything-but-artsy New York Times type, the bitter-because-I’d-rather-be-writing-scripts L.A. Times type, and everything in between. Those endowed with press or corporate passes blew by the long lines that grouped outside the theaters, but for once, nobody seemed to mind. Despite the wintry weather, the cinematic discourse continued on between strangers and new acquaintances unabated...