Word: compacting
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Cheap Movies Inventor: Pure Digital Technologies Availability: Now, at CVS and Rite Aid; $30 plus $13 for processing Now you can immortalize special moments without hauling out the heavy hardware. The One-Time-Use Video Camcorder is compact and easy to handle, with enough bells and whistles to give you your money's worth - like the bright 1.4-in. LCD color screen and the playback button that lets you view the last bit you captured and delete it if it's rubbish. The casing is sturdy for a throwaway; the sound and video quality are perfectly acceptable...
...they want more than cake for eating. They want a future. The rest of France has for decades been wanting only a present--just a few more years of fine wine and steady work in a superregulated, 35-hr.-workweek, cozy social compact that makes it almost impossible for a worker to be fired and almost impossible for the offspring of immigrants to be hired...
...NASCAR country, folks say Tony Stewart's return to his idyllic hometown has made him a better competitor. The compact, 5-ft. 9-in. driver abandoned the Charlotte, N.C., area--the roaring capital of stock-car racing--and returned to cozy Columbus, Ind. Sure enough, with just three races to go, he was the leader in this year's Chase for the Nextel Cup, stock-car racing's grand prize. What has changed? Well, he spends a lot more time hanging with his friends and being a good neighbor. In short, the locals say, he has mellowed...
...with older customers, are taking note. Five years ago, Chung says, you wouldn't see 35- to 40-year-old women in ads. Now it's common. "Call it the Desperate Housewives phenomenon," says Chung. Christie Brinkley, 51, appears in the new ads for CoverGirl Advanced Radiance Age-Defying Compact Foundation, and actresses like Susan Sarandon, 59, can be seen hawking Revlon foundation. Upscale department stores like Saks Fifth Avenue are putting older women in their advertising...
...decade, scientists had been searching for dark matter -- the mysterious stuff whose gravity seemed to hold the universe together but which nobody had ever seen. This year they found it -- or at least some of it -- in the form of Jupiter-like clumps of matter known as massive compact halo objects, or MACHOS...