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...years ago, the captain announced that smoking was permitted in the last four rows of the plane. Some of the smokers, who had psyched themselves into a few hours without a cigarette, now realized they might light up if only they were in the right seats. A frantic bidding war arose for those seats, stoking a commotion that the captain finally quelled by rescinding his order and declaring this a nonsmoking flight. If Klein had been captain, you could've smoked 'em if you had 'em. He calls the airlines' no-smoking rule "a sign of the dangerous lengths...
Long before the Music Store came on the scene, frantic record-industry executives had been searching for some way to combat their nemesis: Napster, the original file-sharing service, but to no avail. Their first online ventures, MusicNet and PressPlay, were disasters, largely because the labels didn't trust their users--or one another. High subscription fees and poor selections turned off would-be customers; most skulked off to the underground services, such as Kazaa and Limewire, which had sprung up after Napster's demise...
...medic, the wounded soldiers and their comrades began a frantic race against the clock. Buddies pressed their hands into Castro's hip wound to keep him from bleeding to death. The wound was so massive that his tourniquet was useless. He handed it to Wyatt, who needed two to stanch the blood flowing from his femoral artery. Amid the mayhem, Meinen, who had been manning a 50-cal. machine gun, noticed that he didn't have any feeling in his right foot. "It felt like it had gone to sleep on me, so I picked my foot...
Although the motion for a preliminary injunction is no longer as urgent now that the frantic fall recruiting season is finished, according to Lawler, Lambda hopes that the 3rd Circuit will move to suspend the statute before recruiting for HLS first-years begins in early spring...
Tomato, to-mah-to. On Skin, politics, anxiety and money are the very definition of 21st century American sex, in which desire and guilt dance their eternal lambada to the frantic beat of the electro-media. In Skin's world, come-ons for sex chat compete for TV time with pictures of abducted girls on Amber Alerts. In Skin's world, D.A. Thomas Roam (Kevin Anderson) runs his re-election campaign on an antismut crusade, while his target, Larry Goldman (Ron Silver), quips, "If the voters are so much against porn, why do I live...