Word: cranked
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...Tempe, Arizona. Though Mike and I went to different high schools, we met on the local speech and debate circuit, and we started bumping into each other everywhere we went. Mike and I volunteered together at the city museum, served on youth commissions together, talked on the phone and crank-called random Tempeans together. These experiences forged a friendship I valued highly during a period of my life when good friends were hard to find...
...company. That's the image Jos? Ram?n Alvarez Rendueles, Joseph Kinsch and Francis Mer presented in Brussels last week when they announced that the three companies they manage-Spain's Aceralia, Luxembourg's Arbed and France's Usinor-were forging one $30 billion-a-year monster that will crank out 46 million tons of steel in 2002. The new company, which has yet to be named, will be the world's largest, dwarfing the previous No. 1, Japan's Nippon Steel, which turned out 28 million tons last year...
Till then, get on your denims, crank up the Billy Ray Cyrus and practice line-dancing to ?Achy Breaky Heart...
...robotics. Breazeal got the idea for Kismet when she was working with Cog, another robot in Brooks' lab that was built to have the physical capacities of a human infant. Cog has a torso, a head and arms, and it can engage in simple tasks like turning a crank or playing with a slinky. Cog is physically gifted but completely lacking in social skills...
...Linkin Park's debut came with instructions, they might read something like this: 1. Argue with your mother. 2. Stomp off to your room. 3. Slam the door, crank up the stereo and sulk. Fitting this much angst into one album should be impossible, but this southern California quintet (vocalists Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda, drummer Rob Bourdon, guitarist Brad Delson and DJ Joseph Hahn) proves conventional wisdom wrong on track after track of an album destined for heavy rotation in the stereos of disaffected suburbanites everywhere...