Word: icebergs
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...slick software at which Bill Gates & Co., um, excel. Led by its financial-management title, Microsoft Money and its brilliantly realized investment Website, Microsoft Investor investor.msn.com) the company has more than made its mark in home-financial software. But consumer-side successes are just the tip of the Microsoft iceberg, and industry watchers wonder whether giants like Chase and Citi might yet turn into Titanics...
...third year in a row, April is National Poetry Month. The first harbingers of this nationwide phenomeon are already manifest, namely the Magnetic Poetry boards installed at T-stops across the city. But this is only the tip of the iceberg, according to the latest press release from the Academy of American Poets. Projects include "distibut[ing] 100,000 free books of poetry in supermarkets, hotels, jury waiting rooms, schools, libraries, literacy centers, highway rest stops, on Amtrak trains and in other public place." Reacting to what appears to be the growing irrelevance of poetry in American culture...
...down to the ?unsinkable? claim -- is just about the best way to generate publicity short of hiring Leonardo DiCaprio as cabin boy. ?We thought now would be the right moment, because the whole world is keen on ?Titanic,?? said a company spokeswoman -- who refused to elaborate on what ?modern iceberg detection equipment? the ship would be carrying. No doubt the 1,490 victims of the 1912 disaster are spinning in their watery graves...
...stun guns called Thunder Woman and Thunder Blaster to Macedonia in 1992 without Commerce Department approval. Customs agents are now investigating whether the weapons were reshipped from Macedonia to neighboring Kosovo, where ethnic Albanians have been tortured. The cases the Customs Service has uncovered are the tip of the iceberg. "There are definitely other companies in the U.S. doing it," says a Customs agent...
...kiddie-centrism gets you only so far. What if there are no children on board? You are on the Titanic III, a singles cruise. No kids, no moms, no dads. Now: Iceberg! Lifeboats! Action...