For American designer Michael Laut, the Radia concept phone is all about simplicity: Sleek, circular, transparent, touch-sensitive and small enough to slide in his top pocket.

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In my 20s and even into my early 30s, it was easy to allow these small missed goals to slide off my conscience.

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You slide a small camera a laparoscope into the abdomen through a quarter-inch incision near the belly button, insert a long grasper through an incision beneath the waistline, and push a device for stapling and cutting through an incision in the left lower abdomen.

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The slide show also was projected on three larger screens in the small court room, which only had seating for about 50 people.

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In the center of the room stands what looks like an enormous playground slide, almost 12 feet tall and 21 feet long, displaying a small section of a 184-foot-long parchment scroll with depositions from the early 14th-century heresy trial of more than 200 Knights Templar.

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And some small but significant percentage of this group is going to take a one-way slide to the bottom, where the compulsion to use their smart phones is so strong that they can only hope their batteries last long enough to text a cry for help.

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The small stylish buttons that control the interface are stiff and the animated menu moves like a slide show.

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If our parents wanted to remember as they moved away from the small town to the city, they cracked open an album or maybe even plugged in the slide projector.

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The Mets, historically a rich franchise, will likely face a further financial slide this year, and the revenue-sharing checks the team cuts to its small-market brethren will shrink the difference between a good left fielder and a poor one for a team like the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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