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HELLO, SUNSHINE It's hard getting out of bed on a chilly winter morning. So the folks at Oregon Scientific are giving you a new way to greet the day with a smile: their $100 ExactSet Projection Clock projects both the time and the outdoor temperature (provided by a remote sensor) in big red letters on your wall or ceiling. If that doesn't get you going, then there's always a backup: an 8-min. snooze button keeps lazybones on a short leash...
...peanut butter, the commandos are a curiosity for Karzai's many visitors and well-wishers. These are turbaned tribal elders who gather in the old Taliban's war council room, sitting cross-legged and fingering their prayer beads in a gas lantern's blue light. Some of them greet Karzai with a good Pashtun hug; others kiss his hand. "Is my turban all right?" laughs Karzai when photographers appear. "And I haven't touched my beard in months...
...watched for two hours. Really something." Around 100 Alliance soldiers scaled the southwest tower and lay down along the walls, firing on the Taliban below. Others manned the western tower. Before long, wounded and dead Alliance soldiers were being ferried through the gates. A U.S. soldier ran back to greet an SAS comrade who had felt the full force of Monday's air strike. "How's your hearing today?" he bellowed. Pause. "I said, 'How's your hearing...
...geeks simultaneously discovered the powers of shredding guitars. Now we have groups like Alien Ant Farm, who neither scream their words nor smash their instruments, though they’re not above “spanking” their guitars to get a giggle from the fans. AAF greet their audience with an amiable, if calculated, “everybody have a-gud-day today?” and later concedes, “thanks fer digging the mellow stuff, guys— it’s our favorite stuff.” Their lyrics are tortured in a vague...
...strange thing about living in a city where you can ride a crowded train and smell someone’s breakfast without knowing their name is that you begin to befriend the physical landscape around you. Larger-than-life structures become identifiable things, old friends to greet on visits home, urban landmarks as well as private milestones. The anonymity of people makes the familiarity of buildings more deeply felt: in a city of strangers, they are a set of steady and common companions...