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...working in a print shop in Keokuk, Iowa, is dazzled by a book about exploring the Amazon, by a ship captain named William Lewis Herndon. The kid, who is fizzing with light-out-for-the- territory restlessness, quits his job and hops a steamer for New Orleans, hellbent to board the next boat for the Amazon's mouth. But no boats are headed there, then or later, so young Samuel Clemens is stuck with writing about the Mississippi. There is only the most tenuous and delightful of connections with another kid, in Defiance, Ohio, a century later. This fellow, named...
Small wonder that the advance toward a cashless society has created a new category of frustrated consumers. Hudson Hendren, an engineer in Herndon, Virginia, was mortified last summer when the phone company shut off his service after failing to receive a payment he had made through the ScanFone system. In New York City, hundreds of subway passengers complained last month that the new electronic fare cards were double-charging them for rides or failing to let them through the automated turnstiles. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority blamed the confusion on riders who had not yet learned...
...policy in place at MIT is just a policy. There are no guidelines," said organizer Mary Herndon, a cofounder of the committee...
...Though Herndon said the rally was "a greatsuccess," she said "I think [the administrationpolicy] is a lost cause...
...partner, William Herndon, said Lincoln's genius as a lawyer was to concede all nonessential matters while he focused on the crucial part of any case -- what he called the nub. In pursuit of that, he was brilliantly logical behind his haze of concessions, his diffidence about ancillary matters: "He was not impulsive, fanciful or imaginative; but cold, calm and precise. He threw his whole mental light around the object." In stating the nub, he chose words "that contained the exact coloring, power and shape of his ideas...