Word: ultra
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...Maia, an ultra-luxurious resort in the Seychelles, may offer canoeing, fishing and snorkeling excursions, but our tip is to give them all a miss. This seven-month-old property is instead made for mooching on an opulent scale. Picture 30 sumptuous villas, spread over 12 hectares next to secluded Anse Louis beach, and appointed with every comfort. Private gazebos offer sweeping views of the Indian Ocean, but the scenery is best enjoyed from your own plunge pool with a glass of champagne. The service is designed for solitude seekers: you can stay cocooned, interacting with a personal butler whose...
...good thing. But except for McGowan, whose grownup sultriness gives her character some emotional heft, the women here are voluptuous stick figures, living out a guy's idea of excitement. I think that many American filmmakers of the past 30 years have this view of women: comic-book superheroes; Ultra-man with breasts...
...world is a brighter place because Shuji Nakamura is not easily discouraged. In 1993 he astonished the scientific community with the first successful blue light-emitting diode, or LED. The blue LED was the last step in the creation of lighting's holy grail, the brilliant white LED--an ultra-efficient successor to Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb, circa...
...Robbins with his unique feel. “He’s kind of a punk rock kid. He kind of writes like that: staccato, tongue-in-cheek.” In particular, the graphic novel visualization stands out as eye-catching, drawn in a style reminiscent of the ultra-violent “Sin City.”Robbins expresses his initial concern that such visuals would lend to the fetishization of the violence of war.“I definitely was concerned, when we first started getting the images back and looking at the animation, that it looked...
...mobile devices are getting better. As if BlackBerrys and Treos weren't hard enough to put down, Apple will start selling the iPhone in June, and the new category of ultra-mini PCs like the FlipStart and the OQO2 is threatening to make computers as portable as cell phones. Two, wi-fi is becoming ubiquitous. Google and Earthlink have a deal in place to supply all of San Francisco with free wireless Internet access. Philadelphia, Anaheim, Calif., and Madison, Wis., already have it, as do dozens of other cities and towns. Within 10 years, most of urban and suburban America...