Word: light
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...Like most collections, this one amounts to a fan's notes, not an encyclopedic survey. It contains almost nothing from the 19th century, and the 20th century inventory is light on landscape and street photography, heavy on fashion and portraiture. But it's a highly credible assortment, brainy and fun, with samples from most of the major episodes of 20th century photography. There's a fair selection of greatest hits - Edward Steichen's 1924 portrait of Gloria Swanson behind a scrim of black lace, Dorothea Lange's inevitable Migrant Mother of 1936 - and some less familiar examples by big names...
...assistant deans of freshmen do seem to try to give people from warmer places locals as roommates. My roommate, who hails from Newton, Mass., advises that cold weather is best dealt with by dressing lightly and running from place to place. When it started snowing yesterday, he wore a long-sleeved shirt and a light fleece vest. Being cold in October toughens you up for when it really gets frigid in December, he reasons...
...make what few functions it delivers feel like luxury. Not only can you type e-mail on its petite, wireless keyboard, but you can also send a voice message or scribble a note directly on its 8-in., touch-sensitive screen using the glowing Plexiglas stylus. A blinking green light alerts you to new e-mail even when Audrey is turned off. To get the news, you simply turn a knob in front to flip through any of nine "channels" featuring customized Web content from sites such as ABCNews, ESPN, Mr. Showbiz and my favorite, AccuWeather.com...
...Sunday, wait at least an hour after rising before going out into daylight. Later, take in half an hour of late-afternoon light. Dr. Alfred Lewy, vice chairman of psychiatry at Oregon Health Sciences University, who devised the regimen, says that by Tuesday you should be sleeping and waking on time--and feeling fine...
...leadership, and by the time it ended State Department officials were feting Thaci and expressing wariness over Rugova. But the continuing violence in Kosovo, which includes both attacks on the remaining Serbs and internecine Albanian turf wars, may have turned many Kosovar Albanians back to Rugova, particularly in light of the fact that the Serbs, too, have elected a man who appears to favor negotiation over violence...