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...change its channels, telephone a friend and play computer games. Electronic nerve stimulars are helping men with severe spinal-cord injuries to father children; penile implants are enabling men who cannot sustain an erection to make love. Wheelchairs that stand up make it possible for the disabled to greet someone face-to-face and to take a book from a shelf. Laptop word processors that "talk" give individuals with no voice a way to communicate. Materials designed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reduce the average weight of a crippled person's leg braces from...
After speaking to medical sources and learning about the dire effects of missing sleep, correspondent James Willwerth began going to bed an hour earlier. "Now," he reports, "I'm happy to greet the day for the first time in my life." His campaign to prevent midday yawns is less successful. He tried stretching out in his office at TIME's Los Angeles bureau one afternoon. Colleagues kept bursting in the door, he grumbles, "unaware that a scientific experiment was in progress...
...Bond, Tarzan and Lord Peter Wimsey has clearly made a contribution to the world. And the quirkiness of Eton College ensures that it still seems to belong less to life than to Lewis Carroll fiction. The boys wear coats with tails, the teachers are called beaks, and both parties greet one another on the street by simply raising a single index finger. The prefects who sweep into classrooms, gowns billowing, to summon boys to see the headmaster are known as praepostors (as in preposterous). And at Eton -- and only at Eton -- academic quarters are called halves, making three halves...
...love the crush of humanity when "Track Eight" is finally announced and reams of people flock to the gate as if to greet the Messiah. Most of all, I love toying with people's emotions by acting unsure about whether I am actually saving the seat next...
...morning, they greet each other with ahowl," he said. Then they "lick each other's faceand gnaw on their friend's head. It is all done inaffection...