It is hardly news that theory sometimes falls apart in practice, but the seven contributors to this volume reweave the threads of the ideal and the real into a set of earnest, readable reflections.
The recent breakthrough by the team, working at the G.E. lab in Niskayuna, N.Y., north of Albany, was a 200-fold increase in the reflective power of their holograms, putting them at the bottom range of light reflections readable by current Blu-ray machines.
Jeffrey Goldberg, writing in The Atlantic, summarized them: "She shmoozed-up Ali Abunimah, a Palestinian activist who argues for Israel's destruction; she also praised Peter Beinart's upcoming book ('The Crisis of Zionism') as, 'terrific: provocative, readable, full of reporting and reflection.' She also linked without comment to an article in a pro-Hezbollah Lebanese newspaper".
Write on a transparent piece of glass instead, and the reflection will be as readable to us inside the mirror as outside.
Here, some of the stories you responded to most, both positively and negatively--from breaking news to humor and advice pieces to intimate reflections--all of it compulsively readable.
The book began as an essay for the New Yorker, where Mead is a staff writer, and that style inflects the finished version: it is elegant, thoughtful and readable, written with clarity and a gentle sympathy that seems a reflection of Eliot's own generous wisdom, while veering away from some of Eliot's more astringent asides.
The result is a most readable book — not quite a biography or a detailed policy study, but a reflection on the way that Roosevelt reinvented the presidency during his first hundred days in office, through bold policy innovations, brilliant speeches and broadcasts and a personal connection with the American people that has not been equaled since.
The adoption of face images in machine readable travel documents requires some quality constraints to be fulfilled (e.g., no flash reflections on skin or hair across eyes), as specified in the ISO/IEC 19794-5 standard.
