Word: clockings
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...person; the downside is that I don?t know how long that pleasure is bound to last. The sound quality isn?t great (you can plug in an MP3 player, but I?m not sure you would want to). Once the initial charm wears off, it has a talking clock and alarm feature that might come in handy. Buy this to win originality points, or to please the person on your list who delights in musical toys or psychedelic bric-a-brac...
...movement," it's easy to imagine that our children and grandchildren will routinely live well into a second century - living well being the next great challenge. The Methuselah Foundation has established a $4 million prize for the scientist who develops the longest-living mouse as the first step in clock-stopping. "When aging in mice is shown to be 'treatable,'" the prize announcement states, "the funding necessary for a full-line assault on the aging process will be made available...
...bridge between East and West - both open to foreign investment and the frontline of the Arab struggle against Israel - has been badly damaged. Lebanon is losing some $40 million each day the crisis continues, in lost business and from the costs of deploying the army and police round the clock in Beirut, according to government ministers. This is on top of the reconstruction costs from the war with Israel, and from the 15-year civil war that ended in 1990, which together have put the country about $40 billion in debt - $9 billion of which comes due next year...
...rollout was designed to exert maximum pressure on the White House because, despite all the fanfare, the report was aimed at an audience of one--Bush. For most of the week, he looked none too pleased about the round-the-clock talking-to he was getting. As he received the report, he told cameras it was "interesting." Later he said it has "some very good ideas." But within a day, he was putting some distance between himself and the best seller: "I don't think Jim Baker and Lee Hamilton expect us to accept every recommendation...
...outside, the clock strikes the hour. As students pour from nearby classrooms, they pause to peer, wide-eyed, into the windows of room 109. They take advantage of this rare chance to snatch a glimpse of the notorious Math 55. Fascinated, their eyes explore the encoded chalkboard, entrancing them with its odd arrangement of foreign symbols, formulas, and proofs...