Word: zipping
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...scientists are placing particular emphasis on one robot, tellingly named Mars 2003. This vehicle, now slated for launch in 2011, will ostensibly touch down, collect soil samples, and zip back to Earth. NASA estimates the 300-pound rover will cost between $1 billion and $2 billion...
...what's a parent to do as kids zip back to school atop the latest craze? Think safety: Due to their small size and insubstantial weight, the scooters are hard to handle. Bumps or rocks on the pavement can cause small fry to lose their balance and fall, which means anything from scraped knees to fractured skulls. Tuesday's report advises parents to wrap protective gear around their kids' limbs and to insist on helmets. Of course, the extra padding may not add to the all-important "cool" factor, but it could be the difference between a fall...
Then there's the lack of any kind of removable storage device like a Zip drive. Such a sacrifice is to be expected in an $899 iMac. In an $1,800 Cube, it starts to look like meanness. You can always buy and connect a peripheral Zip, of course--but remember, you're also going to have to shell out a minimum of $1,000 for the 15-in.-wide, 1-in.-thick Studio Display that goes with the Cube. Your wallet will start to look as slim as the screen...
...Cube is Steve Jobs' baby, and it certainly bears some of the Apple CEO's famous hubris. Jobs has described it as the perfect computer. Trouble is, it seems to be asking for a perfect human to operate it--no careless fingers, no need to make back-up Zip files, no changing minds about what you've plugged in. Instead of blaming it, though, I feel like apologizing to the digital brain for my flaws. After all, a computer that doesn't stoop to notice its imperfections is so very...
...infuriates the U.S. is that 17 November operates with a free hand. "It's not that Greece has the world's worst terrorist problem," says Wayne Merry, a former U.S. embassy official. "It's that Greece has the world's worst counterterrorism problem." What are Greek police doing? "Zilch, zip, zero," huffs a U.S. official. Not one arrest. Not one conviction...