Word: checkout
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They were waiting for the same doctor who, on the same day, would treat Johnny P.! How many people they would tell! And what confidence my patients had that day - in me. I heard no long-winded rebuttals based on what the lady in the checkout line thought I should do to treat their shoulders. So attentive and so agreeable, my patients hung on every word from Johnny P.'s doctor. Even my administrator felt the change: "We should pay that guy to come here. Everybody's so nice," she said as I gulped coffee between appointments...
...relied on became liabilities. His spirited antics began to look oafish. Instead of being witty and wry, he came across as smug. And all of it became media fodder. In the words of one movie critic (O.K., Time's Richard Corliss), he was "a commodity that gets consumed in checkout lines" rather than in a cinema. Every decision he made appeared to be exactly the wrong...
...that In Rainbows is priced to generate a windfall. While a deluxe boxed-set version for superfans is available for $80, the downloadable album's 10 songs have no price. Drop them into the online checkout basket, and the register says it's up to you. Click again, and the words it's really up to you appear-and really, it is. In Rainbows is the first major release whose price is set by you. And it's perfectly acceptable to pay zero...
...Rainbows will be released as a digital download available only via the band's web site, Radiohead.com. There's no label or distribution partner to cut into the band's profits - but then there may not be any profits. Drop In Rainbows' 15 songs into the online checkout basket and a question mark pops up where the price would normally be. Click it, and the prompt "It's Up To You" appears. Click again and it refreshes with the words "It's Really Up To You" - and really, it is. It's the first major album whose price is determined...
...many ordinary Chinese, the Games mark the ability of their nation to shrug off two centuries of humiliation by foreigners. "In the 19th century, China used to be called the sick man of Asia," says Li Weiling, 51, a checkout clerk at a Beijing supermarket. "The Olympics will totally change that. Hundreds of thousands of athletes, reporters and visitors will see China with their own eyes and realize China is not a backward country anymore." Among China's dissidents and democrats, meanwhile, there has been hope that the attention paid to their nation as the Games approach would lead...