Word: bends
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...abruptly stop working and refuse to budge until you do the right thing. Same goes for multiple installations. You can load Office once or twice, but that's it. Microsoft says this is to prevent piracy and that if you call tech support with a good excuse, they may bend the rules, but it's a nuisance...
Yuri Geller claims he can bend spoons simply by using his brain. In the South Korean city of Taejon, people are learning a very similar trick - though they need a computer between themselves and the cutlery. Here's how the experimental software works. You don an electrode-studded cap that monitors brain waves and sends data to a computer that displays a virtual spoon. Different types of mental activity produce distinct signals in the brain, and the computer can discern, in a crude way, what's going on inside your head. To make the spoon bend, you have to relax...
...Japan, that's a way of reminding yourself to toss the card in the trash when you get home?an open gesture of disrespect. Tanaka now carries a fat wad of business cards with him and when he hands one out, he's quick to say, "Go ahead, bend it. I like breaking the rules." Tanaka will try to break the status quo?if the status quo doesn't ultimately break...
...drawbacks. In order to alleviate the serious energy shortage that the U.S. faces, there are no other alternatives except living in the dark much of the time. Conservation alone will not do the job, and new energy sources are still years away. We are going to have to bend some of the rules for environmental protection for a while in order to keep the lights on, and make the most out of all energy sources. WALTER S. MOE El Dorado Hills, Calif...
...novel ripples outward from a central event: a three-day festival in Talcott, W.Va., commemorating the legendary black railroad worker who outhammered a steam drill but died in victory. Many of the ballads about John Henry place the epic battle he waged with the machine in nearby Big Bend Tunnel, and Talcott residents hope that John Henry Days will become an annual and tourist-friendly attraction...