Word: refreshingly
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...developers knew that they were up against Firefox's very successful earlier versions, so they plucked a few key elements for the IE7 design. For starters, the navigation bar of the browser takes up very little room, allowing more space for the websites themselves. The familiar buttons-refresh, home, favorites and one-touch print-are all nestled in, but when you start it up, IE7 doesn't display the "menu bar," containing all of the deeper options people tend not to use on a daily basis...
...technology. Each of its finely packed pixels can be white or black but they don't shimmer or emit any light, so the experience is eerily like looking at paper, high in contrast and relaxing on the eye. The tradeoff is that E-Ink can't yet refresh fast enough to show video, and even scrolling or zooming is a complicated business, but that's not the purpose of the Reader. Even without a backlight, you can read every page of any e-book in all of the same settings that you'd read a tome made...
...resource. “The point of...the interfaculty initiative is that art contributes to society because it explores ideas and practices,” wrote Sommer in an e-mail. “Change,” she said, “depends on innovation and ways to refresh existing material.” Sommer will also be leading a workshop for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, a federal agency charged with overseeing anti-discrimination law. She hopes to develop a similar program at the College. —Staff writer Nicholas A. Ciani can be reached...
...Please refresh my memory. When was the last time you had a "love him or hate him" poll for a potential male President? Distasteful at best, sexist at worst...
With the Democrats determined to make a major issue of Bush's foreign policy competence, the President seems ready to leap at the chance to refresh the landscape and make his own history. He had deliberately diverged from the Middle East course set by his two predecessors when he hired an unabashedly pro-Israel staff. "I'm all for conferences," Bush said in a 2004 appearance with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, "just so long as the conferences produce something." George H.W. Bush and his Secretary of State James Baker were seen as heroes by some Palestinians; Bill Clinton made...