Word: dust
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...maybe I was having a little too much fun playing with the Rough Rider III, a "ruggedized" laptop designed to take a licking and let you keep on pointing and clicking. These machines are made to boot-camp standards to resist impact, temperature extremes, rain and dust. Many have bright screens, in case you need to read e-mail under a blinding desert...
Most are bought by police, the military and hard-core industrial users--think factory-floor supervisors inputting data in a cloud of dust. But you don't need to be running a textile mill--or Desert Storm--for such computers to make sense. One estimate has U.S. businesses losing more than $1 billion in broken laptops this year, about 14% from sales divisions (that's a lot of laptops falling from overhead bins or rattling around rental cars...
...Even if the New York Post was right Wednesday in pegging Chung's sit-down with Condit as "the most-watched show of the summer," any public stir could be short-lived when viewers figure out what Condit is up to: Just trying to dust himself off politically while he's got the stage all to himself...
...becoming a coal geologist. But while working on his master's degree, he took a research job that put him in contact with the first ice core ever retrieved from Antarctica. To his surprise, he became entranced with the idea of reconstructing Earth's climate history from the dust particles, pollen grains and subtle geochemical shifts trapped in the core's layers...
...Jian, a writer who lives in London, is the author of Red Dust: A Path Through China (Chatto & Windus and Pantheon...