Word: actually
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...stop. Four people are standing around a white, early-'70s Volvo. They're out of gas; can we help? Yes, yes, we say, of course. They want to siphon from our tank. They have an actual siphon right there. We don't have enough, we say, noticing that we're almost out ourselves. We'll take them to the next town. Another man, Esteban, about 19, gets in the back seat, as does Marisa, 24, petite, in silk blouse and black jeans. They hold the gas container on their laps. It's 15 minutes to tiny-town Roda...
Lest our readers think shopping malls are dead, staff writer Karl Taro Greenfeld looks at clicks-and-mortar companies, which are integrating actual stores with online services, and concludes that they may be best positioned to own the future. Chris Taylor examines the food fight among online grocery services, and Maryanne Murray Buechner wonders how Wal-Mart will fare in an e-commerce world. "The Internet clearly has been one of the most dynamic forces in the history of capitalism," says business editor Bill Saporito, who produced the package with help from senior reporter Bernard Baumohl, deputy picture editor Rick...
Richard Eyre, father of nine and author of Teaching Our Children Values, says he introduced the concept of "real/imaginary" to his children when they were little. "The birth of Jesus is real/real," he says. "It's an actual historical event that we celebrate. Invisible friends are imaginary/imaginary. Santa Claus is real/imaginary. He's in-between." Eyre says his kids were relieved to be offered an option of believing in the spirit of Christmas without having to be too literal about Santa Claus, and that the tradition of real/imaginary has been passed on to his grandchildren...
Novelist Price obviously wants to believe in Jesus as the true Son of God--and he experienced a strong personal clue as evidence of that belief. But Price suffers from the modern malaise of skepticism, owing in large part to the unproved notion that the Gospels couldn't be actual history because they were composed many years after Jesus died. REMI G. DUBUQUE Southington, Conn...
Roberts says student activism did not play a role in the actual negotiations...