If you circle a word on the legal pad and tap one of the controls on the CrossPad, the computer will designate that particular word a "key word" and translate it into text that it can later retrieve when you ask it to search for topics.

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Mr. SHADID: You know, it's not too strong of a word, I think, to use like dumbfounded when you ask U.N. officials what happened and what the situation is on the ground with the cluster bombs right now.

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Oh, and we'll ask for a price and release window, as we've yet to hear official word on either.

ENGADGET

"I am not a lawyer, so you would have to ask a lawyer for that - he's had his lawyers with him, and the word he used is 'contests', so we just have to accept that, " he replied.

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Outside the academics, I play basketball on a regular basis (don't ask about the jump-reach), do cross word puzzles with more interest than ability, and like classical music and art.

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