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Because the display unit is based on a television-like "raster display" rather than a typical laser-show "vector display," it can animate pictures with little computational effort, he said...
With the infection rate increasing, Seaman asked for an entomologist to pin down the vector, or carrier, of the disease and its habitat. MSF sent Canadian Judith Schorscher from her base in Paris. She spent six months using fans to suck insects into traps, where they could be dissected and analyzed...
...Dole had made an impression on the Senator. Helprin broached the idea of Dole's quitting everything--and realized that Dole was a step ahead of him. "When I raised it," Helprin recalls, "he was looking out over the Mall. His eye seemed to be fixed on a vector between the Washington Monument and the Smithsonian." As though talking to himself, Dole said, "If I'm going to run for President, I'm going to have to run for President...
...news, the look is more important than the feeling. "Hair is character," says a woman in the movie, and director Jon Avnet seems to agree. Up Close has the tone of a fashion shoot; the movie lavishes art on the arrangement of bed sheets over Pfeiffer's body, the vector of her hair blowing in Redford's rugged face. Hard news, soft focus...
Eugene Koh, in his December 13 column on the Good Times "virus" ("Good Times," On Technology column), missed one vital point: there actually was a virus. The message about the so-called Good Times virus spawned thousands, if not millions, of copies of itself, through the transmission vector of the humans thatread it. The message itself was the virus, but instead of infecting computers, it infected minds. So the most clever thing about this hoax is that it was (at least partially) self-fulfilling. Derrick E. Bass...