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After the suspect had been driven away, Barber and Benoit began to head for home. As they passed the three women, the women turned toward them and gave a chorus of "Thank you, guys...
...catalog of trauma turned out to be a long one. Below the right knee, the tibia and fibula shattered into half a dozen pieces. The right femur broken, the ball joint at the hip damaged. The elbow of the right arm crushed. Several ribs snapped, their sharp ends driven into the lungs. Collarbone and sternum busted. What saved me was the merest fluke: apart from punctured lungs, a few picturesque cuts and some bruising to my liver and heart, the damage was all skeletal, not soft tissue. My brain was intact; ditto my eyes, spine, guts and genitals. It could...
...This bot-driven universe won't arrive until a few kinks have been ironed out. Right now, says Jeff Kephart, manager of the agents and e-merchant phenomena group at IBM, price bots don't understand that undercutting your competitor is not always smart. "This gives rise to price wars," says Kephart, who in tests has watched the sell bots give the store away in a competitive frenzy. "They're pretty dumb," he notes. "We have to give them a sense of anticipation...
...rise of the Times, its continued high quality and its independence make a remarkable story, especially in an era of corporate publishing, declining news readership and profit-driven efforts to dumb down coverage to the level of a TV-numbed audience. That a single family has managed this feat over such a long period of time is even more remarkable. That this particular family, at least as described in The Trust (Little, Brown; 870 pages; $29.95), by Susan Tifft and Alex Jones, managed to make and keep the Times great is astounding. In almost voyeuristic detail, the ruling Times family...
...that. I was really into my career, so I didn't want men to get in my way or anything - I was really just very determined. But I mean, you get to the point where you want to have both, a boyfriend and a career. But I was so driven - I had so much work to do that when I was 26, 27, 28 - I just wasn't into it. And I just turned 35, so now I'm like, shoot - I've gotta figure that out too. I don't just want to be a lonely actress. So yeah...