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...across town for work every day, I protectively clutch my latest book as the bus rattles me back and forth. Still, an almost strange and funny sense of purposefulness persists, even if I’m only one page further by the time I arrive. I am beginning to master a tiny piece of knowledge, beginning to become an expert on an obscure little piece of academia, and the freedom of summer has paradoxically given me the drive and self-control to move forward...
...Once you master the finger acrobatics, the Touchstream offers huge advantages, as it's more comfortable to have the keyboard and mouse functions all in the same place. In addition, you don't waste time reaching for the mouse every few seconds. User surveys by the company indicate that the Touchstream may help reduce repetitive-strain injuries and increase productivity. We found it to be a lot more fun than mousing around...
...that had just begun to flower after years of institutional inertia and international distrust. "Who is going to trust intelligence or anything else with the Filipinos now?" asks Abuza. Evidence has mounted recently that JI is continuing to plan bomb attacks from Thailand to Indonesia. Now the organization's master bombmaker is back, rested and ready to roll. The region might pay in lives for the negligence of one Manila prison...
...Mothers was Leela Chitnis, who died last week at 91. Born in Karnataka, she was already a young mother of four when she began her film career in 1935. In her first bloom of beauty, she brought a natural dignity and a naturalist acting style to love stories with Master Vinayak and Ashok Kumar. Chitnis had the art of suffering radiantly: under arched eyebrows, her large, luminous eyes could hold glistening tears seemingly for hours on end, to cascade down her face with joy or agony in the final reel. In Raj Kapoor's Awaara, she was required...
...lies at the heart of "one country, two systems," but was hardly invented for Hong Kong. It has been in use for decades inside China, where just about everybody has been told they are entirely free, though everyone understands that "free" means "free to concur." In China, successful bureaucrats master the skill of accepting control from above while pretending to be independent...