Word: buckly
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...instance, various gift-buying apps that range from Better Christmas List ($2.99), which tracks your budget (and recently added a "much-requested passcode lock option") to Hanukah Holiday List ($1.99), which is made by the same dude and does exactly the same thing (but costs, inexplicably, a buck less). Or check out the free GPS Christmas List, which sends you an alert when you're near a store that sells something on your list. (See the Top 10 iPhone Apps...
...could afford it," he told Ed. "I couldn't even afford to lend the money to Ray Bradbury, 'cause it was one dollar a plate. Of course no food, you understand, just a dollar for a plate." Forry wore the spaceman outfit around the city, attracting cries of "Buck Rogers!" and "Flash Gordon!" from local children. He added: "They had an Esperanto convention, the artificial language, which I know. ... So I was in this futuristic costume and I went up and explained in Esperanto that I was a time traveler from the future...
...five top-selling cars in America are not "foreign." Many overseas carmakers build cars in the U.S. Why do these cars offer a better bang for the buck than GM's? The answer is with the United Auto Workers, who receive far higher pay and benefits than non-union workers in comparable jobs. As long as the labor bosses' power remains, Detroit's Big Three are doomed. President Truman stood up to the railroad unions. I hope Barack Obama will stand up to the auto unions. John Bucur, Wellington, Florida...
...immediate adverse effects of tasimelteon, though participants were not examined the following day.) In recent years, the popular prescription sleep aid Ambien, for example, has been linked to a range of bizarre sleepwalking incidents, including air rage. In a high-profile case in London in 2002, REM guitarist Peter Buck was cleared of assault and drunkenness charges stemming from his destructive rampage aboard a British Airways flight, after successfully claiming that his Ambien pill - combined with several glasses of wine - caused "non-insane automatism," which rendered him unable to control his actions...
Situations like Buck's may make this new research all the more attractive. Better yet, consider the case of Sarah Krasnoff, probably the world's most extreme jet-lag sufferer. In 1971, caught up in a custody dispute over her teenage grandson, Krasnoff learned that she was not subject to custody laws in the sky. That summer, she made about 160 continuous flights between New York and Europe with her grandson. By the end of the summer, Krasnoff, 74, collapsed and died of a heart attack...