Word: handed
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Take a look at what your eyes are doing right now. It's known as saccadic jumping--the way they skip across the page from left to right before some unseen hand comes in and pushes them to the start of the next line, like the ball on an old typewriter. It's something you've done your whole life. But is it really the most efficient way to read...
...other hand, we should be glad they're reading at all. The RED team's inventions were a huge hit with the thousands of kids who packed the San Jose, Calif., Tech Museum of Innovation from March to October this year; so much so that the exhibit will tour the country in 2001. "Kids are very accepting of these new forms of reading," says RED researcher Maribeth Back. "We've made the book more responsive, in the same way other electronic appliances they know are. The book form we know starts to look less and less sacred...
...Casually dropping an unusually prompt decision at noon on a nation waiting for a ruling from Judge Sanders Sauls on his weekend festivities, the Court "vacated" (wiped off the books) the Florida Supreme Court's decision to extend the certification and hand-count deadlines, essentially resetting the clock to November 17 and the Bush lead to 930 votes. But only till the Florida Supremes try again...
...ticks. David Boies was out within the hour to downplay the decision - "We think the U.S. Supreme Court decision does not in any way affect the contest before Judge Sauls" - before favoring reporters with some well-spun analysis of the implications. For Boies, still fighting for a clean-slate hand count of some 14,000 votes, a decision that at worst costs his client only the 400-odd Broward County votes and does nothing to the ongoing "contest" except muddy it up a bit is just another fly on his legal windshield. "There's no reason this needs to delay...
...Court, Recount Hearing" and that's more grist for the concession mill. (It even sparked a brief "Bush rally" on Wall Street.) A "very gratified" James Baker came out at 3 p.m. to explain how the high court had reinforced the Bush camp's arguments against the extensions and hand counts, even if it had given the Florida Supremes another crack at addressing them. But as hard as Baker was working to convince reporters the Supremes had handed him a win, he wasn't about to call anew for Gore's surrender when victory, in this ruling, seemed...