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...Despite the current gloominess in the electronics market, the ultimate rewards for the winners in these global TV wars could be vast as viewers upgrade their tube sets to flat panels and as broadcasters gradually shift from analog broadcasting to higher-quality digital. Japan has already begun digital broadcasting, and all broadcasts will be digital by mid-2011. In the U.S., every new TV will be required to come with a digital tuner by July 2007, and in Germany, digital broadcasts will commence in time for the 2006 World Cup soccer tournament. During this sea change, Sharp intends...
...simple fact of the matter is that America is a country where the vast majority of people is religious. Whether this means that they actively participate in a church, synagogue, mosque, or temple or if they have an individual, meaningful relationship with a higher power is immaterial. The point is that many Americans have a faith they are devoted to and derive their values from. The result is that when many Americans talk about their vision of what America should be and what American politics should accomplish, these ideas are largely influenced by religion and conceived of in religious vocabulary...
...News, Apr. 19), a malicious (albeit facetious) editorial and an unduly harsh April 21 Fifteen Minutes party report card (apparently also meant in jest). These articles make spiteful accusations in the spirit of parody without ever mentioning what they assume the whole campus already knows: that the vast majority of partygoers, even many of those irritated by the foam, considered this year’s Lather an overwhelming success. The Crimson’s so-called “jokes” are a slap in the face to the dozens of Mather volunteers who devote their time and energy...
...mini-city of monumental cast, the 400-room, pink granite hotel cost its owners, the government of Abu Dhabi, a reputed $3 billion to build. It fronts its own 1.3-km beach and sprawls over 40 impeccably manicured hectares - an astonishing 10 of which are devoted to its vast indoor spaces. Dwarfed by soaring columns and boundless ceilings, guests can wander among 6,040 sq m of gold leafing, 114 domes adorned with glass mosaics, and 1,002 bespoke Swarovski crystal chandeliers, in an interior that seems part Arabian Nights, part Walt Disney. The hotel's centerpiece...
...cast, the 400-room, pink granite hotel, tel: (971) 2 690 9000, cost its owners, the government of Abu Dhabi, a reputed $3 billion to build. It fronts its own 1.3-km beach and sprawls over 40 impeccably manicured hectares?an astonishing 10 of which are devoted to its vast indoor spaces. Dwarfed by soaring columns and boundless ceilings, guests can wander among 6,040 sq m of gold leafing, 114 domes adorned with glass mosaics, and 1,002 bespoke Swarovski crystal chandeliers, in an interior that seems part Arabian Nights, part Walt Disney...