Word: leakings
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...site will be frequently updated through the election. The latest amendment? A leak in the ceiling creates a puddle on Palin's desk. Click on that puddle in order to prompt a visit from the nation's new favorite plumber...
Take, for example, Poppy's driving lessons. They are conducted by an instructor named Scott (played by Eddie Marssan) in a state of rage, the suppression of which becomes more and more difficult for him. It's a great performance, in which unhappy autobiographical details leak out through perpetually clenched teeth. Scott's student is, of course, his opposite. He hates her boots - inappropriate, he believes, for serious engagement with the auto's pedals - and he hates the casual good cheer she brings into the claustrophobic car they are obliged to share, and above all he despises himself for being...
...just can't keep a secret in the tech industry these days. Early pictures of T-Mobile's Google phone leaked onto the Web the week before its Sept. 23 launch, and now images are surfacing online of another eagerly awaited device: a new handheld from Research In Motion (RIM), the BlackBerry Storm. RIM hasn't officially launched the new device yet - and it declined to comment on the leak - but the Storm is clearly a direct assault on Apple's iPhone 3G and T-Mobile's G1. It's also an attempt to wow consumers with both a jazzy...
...risk to staff. Scientists are not allowed into the tunnel when the machine is running, he says, and first responders after the fault all wore respiratory equipment. All scientists working in the underground ring also carry portable respirators, which they are instructed to use within seconds of a helium leak...
...machine they consider a harmless tool. But, there's no underestimating the thrill of the risk. Earlier this year, when I visited CERN, my tour group included a father and his slouching, intensely apathetic teenage son. It wasn't until the tour guide mentioned that a helium leak could fell a man on the spot that the youngster's eyes lit up, practically dancing with visions of white-coated scientists crumpling to the floor like unstrung marionettes. "So, this thing could just kill us all," he said. "So, it's a death ray!" The father murmured, "Well...