Word: flags
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...catch? Blank music CDs are still expensive. CD-R music discs cost $6 to $10 apiece, CD-RW discs a whopping $18 to $25. That's thanks in part to a royalty agreement with the recording industry, which also requires that a special "copyright flag," or signal, be embedded on blank discs and that CD recorders accept only these flagged discs. That has kept the price of recordable CDs for music artificially high; virtually identical recordable CDs for computers by contrast are relatively cheap...
When terror strikes, it always tears through the comforting screen of normality. One moment, midmorning shoppers and workers bustle along Nairobi's Haile Selassie Avenue at the downtown corner where a bronze eagle and a fluttering flag mark the five-story U.S. embassy. The next, the earth trembles as a thunderclap unleashes a mighty shock wave. Seconds later, black smoke plumes into the sky as the tarmac ignites, flashing fire to parked cars and passing buses. The blast shatters every window within a quarter-mile radius into lethal slivers, blows the bombproof doors off the embassy, sucks out ceilings...
Nice try, Spielberg! You think perhaps we can bring back the deep pride we once felt in our own flag with a mere movie? Pride is a reflection of doing the right thing and doing it well. When was the last time the decision makers of the U.S. deserved that feeling? Our government has always "asked" the sons and daughters of this country to uphold the values we believe in. What the government hasn't done is keep its end of the bargain, by placing a value on the lives of its servicemen and -women. Weeks before...
...white flag fluttered in my mind. Just in time, too. I ran up the driveway to greet my mother. This situation was a disaster. There was to be no future for Manly Man and me. Ah, well. Maybe Harvard men aren't so dull after...
...Friday, the flag flying over the Capitol was lowered to half-staff. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Florida Senator Connie Mack visited Gibson's family at the hospital and stopped at the Chestnuts' home to see the officer's wife and children. Gingrich told them their father was a hero. But tragedy did not distract some politicians from the opportunities at hand: by 6:30, staff members for New Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli were distributing a press release to reporters calling for tighter gun control. Weston, after emergency surgery during the night, lapsed into a coma and was placed...