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...some zany concepts. But once the commercial winners are clear, more outlandish forms of content may fade away. Spam and advertising will creep in too. That makes now an ideal time for all of us to enjoy the wacky creation of a new industry. Your teenager's cell-phone habit might be driving you crazy, but it's jolting the tech world with a hit of much needed creative chaos. --With reporting by John Hollis/ Atlanta, Coco Masters/New York, Adam Pitluk/ Houston and Leslie Whitaker/Chicago
...front of the bay window. "They are kind of getting in the way of sitting down," Chertoff says. Not that sitting is a priority. Chertoff speed-walks to meetings where he peppers subordinates with pointed questions and blazes through topics he wants to cover. He has a bad habit, aides joke, of running ahead of schedule. "It takes all the energy I have just to keep up," says chief of staff John Woods...
...suck." But I can attest to the long-term effects. For the next three years, our ride home was far more pleasant. And when my now 21-year-old daughter calls to talk about things going wrong, she always brightens her mood by relating something good. Happiness is a habit best learned early. Karen Reddick Yurka Manzanita, Oregon...
...actually communicated with her captor. She says she saw him not as a monster but as a human being. She talked with him. She told her story--how her husband had been stabbed in a dispute and had died in her arms, how she then had developed a drug habit, had been caught for speeding and drunken driving, had been arrested for assault (the charges were dropped), had ceded custody of her young daughter to her aunt. She showed him her wounds as a human being. And she saw in that man his own wounded soul...
...Usually I have a bad habit to keep going instead of stopping in front of the net,” Vaillancourt said. “This time I did and Julie and Nicole worked hard to get the puck back in front and I was standing there...