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...information on-demand" functionality of interactive media will also allow for a more informed populace. Granted, technology as it is today requires the user to be somewhat well-informed anyway, but as interfaces grow and society habituates to new media, the method--and the impulse--of Joe User to extract information from the Infobahn will become intuitive...
...weather profile this season was near perfect. After the thaw there were dry, mild days so the farmers could plant almost without interruption, most of them using the no-till method, where the seeds were drilled or chiseled into matted stubble left from the year before; this residue forms a weed-retardant layer and a sponge for moisture. The right rains came at the right time. Only in isolated corners of the country were there scorching winds or floods...
...team used a clever, indirect method of measuring the age of the universe. First the scientists determined the distance to a group of galaxies called the Virgo cluster. Then they took advantage of a trick first used by Edwin Hubble, the astronomer who discovered, back in the 1920s, that the universe is expanding -- and for whom the space telescope was named. If the whole cosmos is blowing up like a balloon, Hubble reasoned, then you can calculate backward to see when the balloon began to inflate...
...scientists' method of calculating the universe's age is based on the assumption that it has been expanding ever since the Big Bang. If the age estimate is wildly wrong, then there could be a flaw -- possibly a fatal flaw -- in the Big Bang theory...
...This method of picking the top team is made more horrible by the fact that there isn't a college football playoff. We have those wonderful bowl games like the Poulan Weed-Eater Independence Bowl or the John Hancock Bowl (formerly the Sun Bowl) and many others, none of which would produce a national championship game if Penn State and Nebraska remain undefeated...