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...number next to the letter "F" goes up, the image of the camera's aperture gets tighter. It doesn't take long to sort out, then, that the higher the "f-stop," the more closed the camera's aperture. Beginners will appreciate the fact that the D40 has a knob of preset modes, not just my favorite "auto" mode but "portrait," "sports" and more. What's cool is that, when you change modes, the screen shows the changed settings. Little by little, the notions will start to sink in: what the camera is trying to do to shoot action, what...
DAWKINS: People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants to get them exactly right. The problem is that this says, because something is vastly improbable, we need a God to explain it. But that God himself would be even more improbable. Physicists have come up with other explanations. One is to say that these six constants are not free to vary. Some unified theory will eventually show that they are as locked in as the circumference and the diameter of a circle. That reduces...
...like any other day, this is what is going to cross the line from Mexico: a million barrels of crude oil, 432 tons of bell peppers, 238,000 light bulbs, 166 brand-new Volkswagen Beetles, 16,250 toasters, $51 million worth of auto parts, everything from the little plastic knob on the air conditioner to your cell-phone charger. It all comes in trucks and boxcars and little panel vans, and that's just the stuff that Customs can keep track of. There is also the vast shadow market--not just the cocaine and heroin and freshly laundered money...
...percent sure,” she said. Zhang said that the intruder invited one of her friends to engage in drug use with him. David Mou ’08, who also lives in E-entryway, said he heard someone turning the knob to his locked fourth floor door on Friday. Thinking friends were at the door, he walked towards it. “Whoever it was heard that I was coming and bolted down the stairs,” he said. “By the time I opened the door, he was already on the second floor...
...Maryland from New York City and back, I found the car delightful. The cockpit felt roomy, featuring a sprawling dashboard and plenty of leg room (though adults in the rear felt squashed). The racing-inspired seats never gave us back problems. We appreciated touches like a leather-wrapped shift-knob and audio controls on the steering wheel. The car's navigation system was a breeze to operate and the seven-speaker 350-watt audio system, equipped with XM satellite radio, had us rocking as we zipped out of tollbooths. Driving down windy country lanes the car cornered beautifully and handled...