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...Between the partisan extremes, Emerson writes, "there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground... the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong... He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the balance... You are both in extremes, he says... you are spinning like bubbles in a river... you are bottomed and capped and wrapped in illusions...
...father built this house he now lies in. He poured the concrete and framed up both floors and hoisted the roof beam and shingled the roof and nailed the siding and the flooring and the insulation and the drywall, and planted the apple orchard and the half-acre of vegetable garden to feed his six children...
...Palm Pilot. On Dec. 12 they spotted him driving four times past the sign used to signal a drop, just a mile from his home. On Dec. 26 they watched him do it again, as he walked right up to the signpost with a flashlight to sweep its beam in search of the adhesive-tape signal, then raise his arms in a gesture of disgust. On Jan. 12 Hanssen was reassigned to an obscure office at headquarters to isolate...
...homes like running water. And in that infrastructure race among media companies to own as many pipes as possible, there are cable people - AOL Time Warner (owner of this reporter), AT&T, Comcast - there are DSL people (the Baby Bells), and there are satellite people, who want to beam everything down to you from...
...Case in point: at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, a nine-hectare mega-resort at the western end of Waikiki Beach, a 25-story tower opening in May will house a 3,900-sq-m spa and "wellness center." One of its main attractions: a state-of-the-art Electron Beam Tomography scanner, the first of its kind to be installed in a resort setting. This $2 million machine works with high-resolution ultrasound and other space-age diagnostic tools to detect early signs of heart disease and cancer. For around $8,000 per person, anyone whose stock portfolio hasn...