Word: coding
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...Crusades, movie minds perk up. Kingdom of Heaven, written by current hot scripter William Monahan, is set in Jerusalem in 1187, between the Second and Third Crusades. It spins out a clash of personalities, cultures, regions and religions. What fascinates Scott this time is the pure, severe code of the knight. "The knight was the cowboy of that era," he says. "He carried with him degrees of fairness, faith and chivalry--right action. I think right action is what it is really all about...
...same time, we are seeing the emergence of smaller, brighter and cheaper data projectors. The technology in supermarket bar-code scanners is being transformed to create miniature high-resolution color laser projectors the size of a fingertip. Within a couple of years you will see them integrated into your cell phone and PDA; if you want to view data that won't fit on such small screens or if you want to look at the information with someone else, you can use those devices to project it onto any wall, tabletop or other surface so it appears as large...
...closely and are learning even more disturbing details about what the group may have been plotting. Reports on the British investigation, now circulating among U.S. law-enforcement agencies, assert that the group was trying to construct a crude radiological dirty bomb. The arrests (which followed a yearlong surveillance operation, code-named Operation Spangle) turned up a cache of household smoke detectors, which the British suspect the group wanted to cannibalize for their minute quantities of americium-241, a man-made radioactive chemical. Officials tell TIME it's extremely unlikely that enough americium could be harvested from smoke detectors to create...
After being found in violation of several fire code and zoning laws last spring, the Harvard Advocate has authorized extensive repairs to its dilapidated 21 South St. headquarters, complying with University requests to renovate the 48-year-old building...
Many of the students that the admissions office contacted by e-mail replied that they wanted to apply to Harvard, were legacies and did not need financial aid, Brown said. Other students identified by the zip code system could not be contacted because they did not have listed phone numbers, he added...