Word: commander
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...traditional, this particular one can only be described as "late century cyberpunk frat." Over by the patio is a slate-gray pool table perched on construction girders, and out on the lawn is a sensory-deprivation chamber. The garage is less a garage than a World Wide Web command post. Hiding among the overstuffed sofas and comic- book art in the living room are a video-game power glove, the latest issue of Rolling Stone and a Yoda mask. The dining room is dominated by a psychedelic poster from an old Don Knotts movie. But the master bedroom, which Leary...
...young Japanese. A large number of high school girls in the big cities--27%, according to a 1994 study by the National Congress of Parents and Teachers--work occasionally for the services, and some unknown portion of those act as prostitutes as well. The innocent-schoolgirl type can easily command more than $1,000 a night for a date and sex and still get home in time for lights...
Experienced pilots were left to wonder what happened. Perhaps Jessica would not have been able to maneuver out of the storm, but Reid certainly would have. Warren Morningstar of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, said, with dual controls "the pilot in command can easily control the aircraft from either seat. There is never a situation in which the nonpilot can put the plane into such immediate peril that there is no recovery." Only after an analysis and "probable cause" finding in about six months will the FAA review its regulations covering young pilots...
...soldiers never die; they get nominated to the board of Home Shopping Network. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, former commander in chief, U.S. Central Command, looks set to become a director of the tireless purveyor of high-quality nylon garments at its annual meeting in May. Does this mean a chance to buy Desert-Storm-in-a-Teacups...
...What is the price of forbearance in the challenging of injustice, and when does stoicism turn into fatalism? Cities like Bombay are routinely given tags like "City of Hope" or "City of Dreadful Night"; Mistry digs beneath the comfort of such abstractions to a level of complexity where murderers command our sympathy and philanthropists live off beggars. The fine balance that gives the title to his book asks us, unforgettably, where we draw the line "between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness...