Word: everydayness
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...notebook is a complete system containing all compounds necessary for everyday use, from a powerful central processing unit (CPU) to a screen that can display more than a dozen lines of text, a full-size keyboard, and adequate amount of storage. Anything that weighs more than eight pounds is classified as a laptop-which has declined in popularity-and if a system goes under three pounds, it is called a subnotebook. Those under one pound are referred to as "palmtops...
...exhibit) on the black-letter style used by German scribes (see the banner of The Boston Globe and The New York Times). Others experimented with types that looked like the monk with quill calligraphy to which literate people were accustomed. Such types become known as italics. Still others imitated everyday handwriting, and a fourth group copied the sturdy, draftsmanlike formality of the letterforms from Roman columns...
...phone flap is the latest in a series of scares linking everyday electrical objects (hair dryers, electric razors, electric blankets, home computers) to one dread disease or another. Most of the concern has focused on the low-frequency end of the spectrum: the electromagnetic fields surrounding power lines, electric motors and video-display terminals. Cellular phones occupy another part of the spectrum. They send their signals using very small bursts of high-frequency electromagnetic waves, or microwaves, favored for most over-the-air telecommunications...
...important to publish stories that people do not want to hear about, to discuss incidents people don't consider relevant or believe should "best be left alone." But serving the community requires more than glitzy, controversial investigative reporting. A newspaper best promotes the public welfare by chronicling the everyday existence of everyday people...
PAPER. Mills are running off brand new sheets of the stuff everyday. Why? Mostly due to this nation's insatiable appetite for a material that could easily be recycled. PAPER. A material that is much more renewable than this world's rainforests, which are dying off at an alarming rate. American forests are being depleted as well. It doesn't take much effort to reverse this dangerous trend. Connect your thoughts with the future before it's too late. Recycle the white stuff. And the colored stuff...