Word: beeper
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...tend to walk around these days saddled with so much stuff that I waddle like a plumber. Beeper, cell phone, personal digital assistant, laptop--sometimes I fantasize about Velcro-ing all my digitalia to bandoliers crisscrossing my chest: the Geek Rambo. Hasta la vista, baby, I say, dropping to my knees, ripping free a cell phone and speed-dialing a pizza...
...companies that sell beepers have been going through a rough spell, according to the Wall Street Journal. Service is getting too cheap, and profit margins are shrinking. Worse, who needs a beeper when most new cell phones come with a built-in pager? My phone, which is by no means extraordinary, even allows people to send me text messages or e-mail. The two-way pager--or enhanced pager--is supposed to save the messaging industry because it turns the once proud but dumb beeper into something that talks back...
...more if you want to buy the docking station to synch information with your desktop computer. And service starts at $30 a month for a low-volume user. Because of its limited functionality, the Pagewriter could not replace my laptop, PDA or cell phone. It would only upgrade my beeper--and since that's the smallest and cheapest of my toys, I plan to keep it on my bandolier...
...largely circumstantial case, Starr's ace is Lewinsky, whose lawyers have made clear from the start that they weren't going to let her go to jail, and whose florid romantic aspirations left a trail behind her like rose petals: e-mails and phone calls, beeper pages and presents. And affidavits. Though Lewinsky swore in early January that she had no sexual relationship with the President, a later proffer to Starr reportedly admitted to just that, was vague on the question of obstruction and said nothing at all about the mysterious "talking points" she gave her friend Linda Tripp...
Signals from beeper-equipped tigers have revealed that they dive much deeper than anyone had suspected--as far down as 1,000 ft. and back within 15 min.--and that they can swim in an absolutely straight line for miles at a time. "Every time you get a chance to follow a shark around in its natural environment," marvels Holland, "you get a new, incredible insight...