Word: zooms
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...prove his point, Chau, who moved to San Francisco recently, pointed to the way he has personally used the service to learn more about his new city, virtually navigating through his neighborhood and even logging on before going to bed to zoom in on Google's images of the parking signs lining his street, to make sure he won't get a parking ticket in the morning...
...system is remarkably simple: The “Crisis in Darfur” interface adds a layer to Google Earth that makes the region’s sorrows interactively accessible to anyone that has downloaded the free software. Any user can zoom in on burning villages and access pictures and text describing what has happened there. Maps, text, and images are seemingly worth much more than a thousand words...
...Britney's not the first young, single mother to have troubles, to feel stress," says Ross Johnson, of the public relations firm Sitrick and Co. She may be the first to have her stress captured in this level of excruciating detail by a zoom lens, however. "Taking a picture of a star in rehab used to be verboten," says Johnson. "When I saw a photo of her at [Malibu, Calif. rehab facility] Promises, I was shocked. This is new territory...
...piece of software: there you are, in your own home, and you can monitor planes taking off and landing at LAX, O'Hare or a handful of other impossibly busy airports. The SpaceNavigator improves the experience, by giving you a manageable way to, say, find a particular plane then zoom in and level off next to it, to get a pilot's view of the flightplan...
...recent studies have found that a whopping four to five percent of college students may suffer from this condition. In extreme cases, patients are basically housebound, terrified of social interaction because of their warped self image. “When a BDD patient looks in the mirror, she will zoom right into the hot spots,” Wilhelm says. “If she has a little scar, she will just see the scar and assume that she is ugly.” The clinician works with the patient to see the big picture...