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...people together; it's pulling them apart. Go to the mall, and you'll see strolling couples--one partner yammering on a cell phone, the other feeling ignored. Go on vacation, and you'll see kids fending for themselves while their parents are running mini-offices from their beach blanket. My boss complains he doesn't have weekends free anymore. He tries to get away--taking his daughter, for example, on a Sunday romp in a park--but while she runs in the fields, he's busy checking e-mail on his pager and conducting business by cell phone...
...women's sex appeal, the hosts joke about Walters' making a sex video; she closes the segment saying, "I'm off to make my film!," shimmying and starting to strip off her pink jacket. This is surely a sign of the apocalypse. But she can still be a wet blanket, especially when it comes to trashing celebrities she might want to interview later. "I still have times, and they all know it," she says, "when I'll say, 'Oh, my God, I'll never be able to talk to this person again.'" (It proves the tyranny of celebrity that...
...change people's habits. When it comes to cash, people don't want gimmicks. They want something that is universally accepted, convenient and easy. Bank researchers figured out the real problem was that wiring even 30% of the "spend points" in the area wasn't enough. They would need blanket coverage to make e-cards into everyday currency...
They found Dalrymple and Elian clinging to each other. "No, no no!" Elian screamed. They gave him to Betty Mills, an eight-year INS veteran who spoke to Elian in Spanish as she covered him with a blanket and raced out to a waiting white minivan. As the pepper spray wafted outside the house, bystanders could hear the agents shouting the code meaning that they had Elian in their possession: "Bingo! Bingo! Bingo!" Mills told Elian that it was O.K., that he was going to see his "papa" and take his first ever airplane ride--not, she kept promising...
...word for spring is outside. Anything outside. For low budget romance, try a blanket and a picnic basket. Broadway Market or Cardullo’s always carry yummy picnic supplies. Fly-by is always another option, but don’t expect a second date. If Harvard Yard tourists kill the mood, Boston Common or the beaches are always a good bet (try Carson’s). The added perk: when conversation goes dead, you can always people watch...