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...screen was too hard to see in sunlight. Other c330 flaws included a windshield suction cup that just didn't suck enough, and a GPS chip that would lose reception when driving on an underpass. In the c550, all three of those mistakes have been rectified - the anti-glare screen is much easier to see under the hot summer sun, the suction mount holds fast to the windshield, and a new GPS chip-from a specialized manufacturer called SiRF-can pick up satellite signals even when you are indoors...
...working my mouth and eyes, clearing my throat, feet independently pushing my just-awakened body into the glare of the corridor. I thought I'd probably heard wrong. A "token black" maybe-some gang member pushed off the platform? Or a marijuana smoker (as in Steve Miller's famous line, "I'm a midnight toker")? The jargon varies by hospital and, like all residents, I strove...
...Confederate officer aboard the Shenandoah who witnessed the conflagration recalled "a scene never to be forgotten by any one who beheld it." As flames consumed them, the eight crewless vessels drifted like crazed, rudderless ghost-ships amid the ice-floes. "The red glare from the eight burning vessels shone far and wide over the drifting ice of those savage seas; the crackling of the fire as it made its devouring way through each doomed ship fell on the still air like upbraiding voices." Chaos reigned: "The sea was filled with boats driving hither and thither, with no hand to guide...
...students around here are anything but reveling in the media's glare. They want to stay as far away from the cameras and reporters as possible. For many students, it borders on invasive. The reality is that campus reaction cannot be summed up in two sound bites of a simplistic divide...
...campaign Operation Lemonade "on the strength of the adage 'If you're handed lemons, make lemonade,'" says Mora, who has not seen the film. "But more often it's simply Operation Da Vinci Code." The document produced at that January meeting had three talking points: 1) Turn the glare of publicity into a proselytizing opportunity. "We can either weep, or we can sing our song," says Mora, postulating that some people, learning about the nonfictional Opus Dei, will think, Well, it's not that bad. 2) Reach out for allies: "This film offends all Catholics, not just Opus...