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Almost as long as humans have used offensive weapons, they've thought defensively as well. The very first types of armor were animal hides that cushioned the blows of clubs. Chinese warriors in the 11th century B.C. clad themselves in rhinoceros skin; ancient Greek warriors carried round, flat shields of bronze, reinforced with layers of hide and wax. In medieval Europe, knights and lords rode to battle in chain mail, a heavy, fantastically expensive armor forged from thousands of tiny links of steel. By the mid-14th century, advances in technology - namely, the high-velocity crossbow and longbow - necessitated steel...
...just use it as a advertising platform,” she said. “I really have to feel like there’s a person behind it.” THE PERKS OF BEING A TWEETERB.good’s twitter runs special promotions, including playing Twitter hide-and-seek with burger vouchers around Boston.Over the weekend, Olinto offered free sweet potato fries from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Friday at its Harvard Square location. He found the number of people who responded to the experiment—thirty—somewhat disappointing, but will continue...
...this. They’ll kill him.Will they, though? Of course not. Wasn’t it a bunch of Northerners in there? Wasn’t this the sort of thing they loved?It’s a good thing he took charge, directing my dazed hide to the doors. Otherwise I would’ve stood in the lobby for the rest of my life. Stunned by my great idiocy. The idiocy of rightdoing through wrongdoing. He shook his head with a smile. “Our Lord is risen.” He was clutching the handles...
...Neal's fan encounters have been safe. Sometimes when he plays hide-and-seek, no one even comes to find him. But as Twitter user and host of VH1's Best Week Ever Paul F. Tompkins puts it, "Anything's easier to do if you're a giant...
...ratings agencies themselves - Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch - have nowhere to hide. Their CEOs took a royal lashing from Congress in October, and in April new regulations will go into effect, largely to address what is often painted as the Achilles heel of the ratings system: companies typically pay to have their own debt rated, therefore creating a massive conflict of interest for the ratings agencies, which want to hold onto that business. (See "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning Up".) Favorably rating structured finance products - including Frankenstein creations like synthetic collateralized debt obligations - became...