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...transform in to respect and comraderie between two passing motorcycle riders. As McPartlend put it, "Rather than trying to outdo each other, we've communed." Maniatis added, "It's a brotherly thing." The sign of acknowledgment between bikers, according to Milan, is "a quick right handed wave, nod or beep." There is not, in the experience of these particular bike boys, a universal brotherhood of motorcycle men. One species of bikers stands against the rest: the Harley Davidson riders. Harley riders, Maniatis explains, "don't even acknowledge that you're of the same breed...

Author: By Claude L. Kaplan, | Title: Motorcycle Mania | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

...Room of One's Own, The Jerusalem Bible, Son of Dune, Dante's Inferno, and a Magazine called "Shark Week." A sign on the scary-looking detector at the door reads, "This is not a metal detector or anything scary like that. It's a bookguard system that will beep if people run off with our books. We got it so that we can greatly expand our library and at some point in the near future sell books.--Colin...

Author: By Lindsey M. Turrentine, | Title: Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité! | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

...beeped, so I checked my computer. Somebody I did not know started a conversation. He read my "who is" message, which was in Spanish, and decided to beep...

Author: By H. NICOLE Lee, | Title: International Students Say The Internet Helps Them Save Money on Calls Home | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

Tired of people whose watches beep periodically to remind them an hour has passed? This Seiko timepiece beeps for a better reason: to signal an incoming phone message. With the press of a button, the caller's number appears on the watch face. The combination watch and beeper enables owners to stay in touch without clipping a boxy beeper on a belt or stuffing one in a handbag. Beeper telephone service must be arranged separately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Products of 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

Thanksgiving weekend was quiet in the Long Island, New York, home of Michelle Slatalla and Josh Quittner. Too quiet. The phone didn't ring all weekend -- which is unusual for a pair of working journalists. Nor did they hear the familiar beep of electronic mail arriving from the Internet, although Quittner tried several times to log on. It wasn't until their tenant complained about a strange message on their answering machine that the couple investigated and discovered all was not well in their electronic cocoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror on the Internet | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

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