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...abrupt halt. Just saying hi, Swetland explains. "I'll forgo another four or five dollars just to maintain a social life out here." This 40 year-old Cantabrigian from Albuquerque, N.M., is another full-time public transport musician. Once in the "Carter Volunteer Army," this self-described "armchair traveler" has performed on platforms across the country including in San Francisco and New York, where he made his start. Swetland has had many an odd job in his time--foot messenger, fruit stand salesperson, film production assistant and sporadic stints as a writer. Claiming to have designed a rack of satirical...
...like flowers," says John Frankenheimer, pointing to a vase of flowers resting on the coffee table by the side of his armchair...
...start-up, financial site iExchange, which launched in October. Gross had been trolling online financial message boards one day last December and noticed that about 15 of every 500 postings had intriguing insights. So he decided to create a site that tracks the accuracy of stock-price predictions by armchair "analysts," allowing the advice of those with the best past predictions to bubble to the top. MORE...
...lecture, Grass seems to be going through the usual motions: anecdotes from the history of literature, references to his youth, material from his own novels, an armchair liberal's criticism of the dehumanizing influence of modern science and the free market, insinuations that the Nobel Prize is really not such a big deal and a conclusion that portrays literature as a heroic struggle for the future of the human race. None of this is very original, and in this case it does not gel together very well. Past Nobel Lectures like Saramago's, Garcia Marquez's and Faulkner's have...
...HAIRS Helmets tend to hide the hairstyles of professional athletes: football, baseball and hockey players all conceal their scalps from view. Not so basketball players, whose domes can rival their dunks for attention. Often an era's defining player sets the style du sport for his courtmates--and countless armchair-athlete imitators...