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...dating, but Haley is jealous because Luke spends all of his time at The Vermillion, where his editor is upperclass woman Regan Lockhart(Alexandra M. Ohanian ’05). Is vermillion a color? I looked it up: it’s a shade of red. Clever...
...clever strategy that hasn't yet paid off (although the company will soon offer a Light Utility Helicopter for the Army that it says could be worth $1 billion). EADS's American work force is still very small--just 2,000 jobs. Dozens of those 72 positions are recent hires in Columbus. Some are working on used maintenance equipment bought from Texas-based Bell Helicopter. Ask any flyer what Bell was once best known for, and he will have the answer: Bell made the Pentagon's favorite military helicopters. Now EADS is angling to own that spot. Ralph Crosby hopes...
...vulnerable, if anyone is running poorly written code on it (and, surely, someone is). To be fair, these attacks aren’t terribly dangerous—barring deeper security problems, they can’t really do much more damage than messing up a few web sites, and clever configuration can even further limit the extent of the harm...
...Experimental travel" is the clever invention of Joel Henry, a French journalist who, in 1990, began devising amusing ways of liberating himself and his friends from the often unfulfilling experiences of conventional tourism. His methods involve the imposition of arbitrary?and often absurd?constraints that turn mundane travel into a fascinating series of games. In Fly by Night, readers are invited to arrive at a destination at dusk, explore through the night, and leave before dawn. Barman's Knock involves going to your favorite bar, downing your favorite drink, asking the bartender what his favorite bar and drink are, then...
...existential despair, take note of a marvelous new book. The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel, out this month, is the guidebook publisher's attempt to make us see ordinary places in extraordinary ways, thereby revealing the new horizons that beckon right under our noses. "Experimental travel" is the clever invention of Joel Henry, a French journalist who, in 1990, began devising amusing ways of liberating himself and his friends from the often unfulfilling experiences of conventional tourism. His methods involve the imposition of arbitrary - and often absurd - constraints that turn mundane travel into a fascinating series of games...