Word: automaticism
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If music is all you need to while away long-haul hours, try the smaller, lighter Apple iPod. It comes in three handy sizes?10 GB ($300, 2,500 songs), 20 GB ($400, 5,000 songs) and a new 40-GB ($500, 10,000 songs) mini-monster. Copying tracks over...
Also, the Saudis have offered only "selective cooperation" on the financial front, according to a senior U.S. official. A former Bush Administration official says the Saudis generally insist on knowing everything the Americans know before moving against a suspect. U.S. investigators, he says, sometimes suspect that the Saudis are fishing...
--CARS THAT DRIVE THEMSELVES The idea of an "automatic vehicle" first showed up in concept cars of the 1950s. Sensors in the road and the car were supposed to do all the work, but they have never moved past prototype. Unlike, say, seat warmers.
Not according to Microsoft. "This is more like your car being threatened by a new caliber bullet," says Mike Nash, the company's vice president for security. Still, a Bill Gates memo last year admitted Windows needed to be more "trustworthy." The company placed ads in national newspapers last week...
But as the detectives headed to the house to make arrests, something frighteningly unusual happened. Instead of scattering like the desert animals that migrant smugglers are named for--coyotes--henchmen working for Avianeda and Andrade fired at the cops with automatic weapons. "We've never faced that kind of resistance...