Word: carte
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...other strategy E! uses is pumping Smith full of Red Bull. Smith, who never has all that much energy to begin with, is cranky after driving an hour to an E!-suggested go-cart track with the other paid cast members of the show: her ever present (and unfortunately named) attorney, Howard Stern; her assistant, Kim Walther, who sports a tattoo of her boss; and Smith's son Daniel, 16, a sensitive kid who happens to hate being videotaped. Sensing the group's lack of energy, an E! exec appears from nowhere proffering Smith her seventh Red Bull...
...weeks ago, Pay By Touch was launched at the Thriftway supermarket in west Seattle. From now on, registered customers need only place a finger on a small scanner to cart off as many groceries as they want. Developed by Indivos, a consumer biometric company based in Oakland, Calif., Pay By Touch may be the best thing since the express-checkout lane. It allows shoppers to authorize credit-card and bank payments using a fingerprint, a copy of which they have placed on file. "People like it for the same reason they like speed passes at gas pumps--mobility and speed...
...Others, however, strongly support Hume’s greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely a problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
...assembly. Yesterday's address was about the importance of statistics in science, and the day before was a lesson from the Koran. Today three girls talked to their classmates about a woman in Gaza and her four children, all of whom had been killed when their donkey cart rolled over an Israeli mine near an Israeli settlement in the dunes south of Gaza City. Qawasmeh knew she had to help her 735 elementary and high school students understand. "Nobody is excluded, even a mother and her children," Qawasmeh told the assembly through the polyester veil that covers her nose...
...street, 42-year-old Bangkok accountant Suntorn Sukanand explains why, as he loads jumbo packs of instant noodles, fish sauce and Thai beer into his cart at Tesco Lotus. "I stop at the local shops only when I have forgotten to buy something in the superstore," he says. "It's clean, and it's cold." Says Bangkok housewife Sunee Veerachai: "I can get everything I need here in one trip on Saturday. Besides, the kids like this place...