Word: stroke
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...bookstore. In October Amazon debuted a service it calls Search Inside the Book that's both simple in conception and staggering in its implications. Amazon scanned every page of 120,000 books into a database, and it now lets customers search the books' complete contents online. In one stroke, Amazon made a new and immensely valuable kind of information available on the Web. Zenodotus would be livid with envy. "I would compare it to the invention of the encyclopedia," says Joel Mokyr, professor of economics and history at Northwestern University. "If this is further developed, as I hope it will...
...took comfort in those scientific reports that suggested that a little wine with dinner was good for our health. But a new study may spoil our pleasure. It found that moderate alcohol intake (one or two drinks a day) did not lower middle-aged drinkers' risk of having a stroke, as previously reported, and may actually cause the brain to shrink. Maybe the StairMaster is better than that second glass of wine after...
...single fluid stroke, an entire night of missed jumpers was swept away, and with it Harvard’s final lead of the game...
...Last Samurai is a movie that demands our surrender--to its energy, to its bold-stroke moviemaking, to its acting (particularly by Cruise and Watanabe, who blend musing and graceful muscularity) and, above all, to its romantic vision of a lost world. You have to rationalize its commitment to the warrior values that, nostalgized and bastardized, would help make Japan such a cruel and dangerous player on the world stage less than a century later. But because the movie's business is to celebrate those values in uncorrupted form, viewers can probably silence such concerns...
...fight against a ban on late-term abortion, or as CNN gingerly calls it, “what opponents refer to as partial birth abortion.” Pleas for some kind of exceptions, as when the life of the mother was at stake, failed before the Republican master stroke of terminology, which gave new life to the old routine that liberals kill babies...