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...Given that airlines can easily spend upwards of $10 million annually on wine, buyers and tasters bear a heavy responsibility. Bouquet and taste are greatly affected by the lower humidity and pressurized atmosphere of an aircraft. The "nose" will be less pronounced and the palate duller. "Particularly on long-haul flights, wines should not be cloying or boring," says Spurrier...
Other than filing expenses, it's hard to imagine a duller office chore than updating your address book. But help might be at hand. Sean Parker, a co-founder of Napster, is here to help. The onetime online-music exec is the mind behind Plaxo (plaxo.com), a company providing free, easily downloaded software that integrates with Microsoft Outlook to keep your address book up to date. So long as your contact is also a Plaxo user, any changes to his or her phone number, e-mail address or postal address will be automatically sent to your...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles wrote in an e-mail that “the world is a sadly duller and less informed place” without Gould...
...women were ornaments to his self-esteem but not central to it. "In a lifetime of tears and laughter," he declaims with trembling sonority in "Rio," "it has been my discovery that friendship between two men is more important than friendship between a man and a woman. Duller but more important." Bing's orotund tone places ironic quote-marks around the speech, but in most movies he lives up to the sentiment. He has few hot smooch scenes; you rarely see him smolder with lust; his frequent come-ons to women are vamps, comic or ironic improvs on the required...
...Indeed, color seems to have had its way with these artists; each piece is a miniature explosion against the gallery's stark white walls. The blues in the paintings are lovely, though underused and overshadowed by duller oranges and greens. Butterly's glazes would make a Crayola crayon envious, as well they should after a reported 15 firings...