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...Goodheart did not write a thesis, but in the Independent he offered a manual for thesis writers that urged them to use style so spectacular that it would "make substance superfluous." He offers a series of cut-and-paste lines that writers could insert into their theses: music writers might describe the "impetuously mercurial hemlola of the percussively insistent ostinato...
...reassuring performance, but it wasn't exactly the straight story. In fact, Cheney had suffered what his doctors belatedly described as a mild heart attack, though Bush almost certainly didn't know that when he appeared before the cameras. Cheney had just undergone a surgical procedure to insert a stent, a steel mesh cylinder that expands to pry open a clogged artery. A Bush aide, Dan Bartlett, said later that Bush knew the procedure had taken place but did not tell the public because he did not feel equipped to discuss it. And anyway, he wanted to focus...
...little as $30. In Japan, a cell phone released by J-Phone this fall includes a built-in digital camera that lets users snap low-resolution photos of themselves, then e-mail them to friends. In the U.S., people can buy for under $100 add-on camera cards that insert into PocketPC, Palm and Handspring handheld...
...prospect of a toaster that quickly pops up perfect golden-brown slices every time is to be dreaded. Will the toaster swallow the slice, then hold it in its stubborn grip until it's a hunk of smoking charcoal? How many times in a row will you have to insert a slice, only to see it instantly pop back up again? Set the dial to WELL DONE, and the "toast" that emerges five long minutes later is pale yellow. Exactly! The recalcitrant toaster must not die. It's this very duel of wits between man and machine, the struggle...
Actually, the Grille was exactly what I expected-lots of freshmen (I saw my whole Ec 10 section), some extremely sketchy senior girls, and uh, the entire [insert sport here] team. "Sometimes Matt Damon and Ben Affleck come here to hang out," a friend chimed in as we entered. "Yeah, maybe pre-Good Will Hunting. No movie star would be caught dead in here," I retorted just as I got poked in the eye with a greasy buffalo wing. But what do you know, when my vision clears, I see another greasy buffalo-in this case, Mr. Affleck...