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...tragic and indeed his own, relating the nearly-simultaneous death of both of his parents and the bond that followed as he played surrogate parent to his younger brother Toph. But with ironic laughter injected into the most tear-jerking circumstances, songs and imagined interviews erupting within the text, and an extended mockery out of traditional book formatting, Genius is far from the average life story. It is also packed with generational allusions and an insistent profanity, distinguishing it from most book-of-the-month fare...

Author: By Emily S. High, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Staggering Genius’ Cracks Up Students | 10/24/2003 | See Source »

Better is the ReadIris Pro optical-character-recognition software, which converts a scanned letter or magazine article into editable text onscreen. It's fast and simple to use, and the only text it had trouble deciphering was newspaper print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Sleeker Scanner | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...This Mat will sit outside your door all year long, waiting to be stepped on. No, it’s not some weird freshman named Mat, but Door-mat. Tan mat with black text and outline. $16. Black...

Author: By Christine Ajudua, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pick of the Square | 10/16/2003 | See Source »

...lopsided dialogue led by the Democratic Party and teachers’ unions have merely led to their successive dismissal as a solution to D.C.’s education problems. In D.C.’s federally-allocated budget, however, House Republicans successfully amended the text of D.C.’s federally-allocated budget on Sept. 9 to include a pilot vouchers program. And these Republicans, certainly alien figures to the District’s local politics, seem to be getting a lot of unexpected support...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: The Party Against the People | 10/14/2003 | See Source »

...Emergency Management Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, finds events that threaten your neighborhood and displays alerts right on the screen. When something is brewing, whether it's an approaching tsunami or a mishap at a nuclear-power plant, the TV translates government-issued radio codes into text messages, audio alarms and colored warning lights (green, yellow, orange and red). The TVs are available now and range from a 20-in. model for $299 to a 32in. for $849. If they get cheap enough, some day you may find them in the same aisle as flashlights, bottled water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Television For Paranoids | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

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