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...City Hall, a surge pushed the front ranks into an uncomfortable speed, nearly a trot, jostled and patted from behind. Abernathy sensed an overly familiar, hostile edge in the cries of tribute--"We're glad you came to Memphis"--not long before loud pops turned anxious heads to listen for gunshots. Crashes after the bangs signaled instead the unmistakable sound of storefront windows being smashed along Beale and Main streets. Moans went up that something was wrong. Young marauders ran through overmatched marshals to attack storefronts ahead of the march--Shainberg's department store, York Arms Company, Perel and Lowenstein...
...cars together so well, they should not be the ones to suffer so much in a restructuring. Sandy McLendon Marietta, Georgia, U.S. I lived in Flint, Michigan, for 27 years and worked for GM. The company's problem is simple: arrogance of the worst kind. Its management will not listen to others. GM cars are poorly designed. Corporate officials and the outdated, unionized workforce can't get along. The result is a company in which cars are produced by two antagonistic groups - an unhappy union and an overbearing management. Lou Rife Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Exit Strategy Re The implications...
...subject of last minute holiday gifts, allow me to recommend noise-canceling headphones. They come exceptionally handy for travelers who want to listen to the in-flight entertainment -or more likely, an iPod -instead of the kid in the next row back who has yet to discover his internal volume knob...
...offers an elegant pair of headphones, with glossy piano-black "cans" to cover your ears, and a detachable wire to connect to your source. You only need a single AAA battery to power it up, and it will last up to 30 hours. Since noise-cancellation uses microphones to listen to the environment, there's also a "Monitor" button that sends through everything outside, so you don't have to take off your headphones to tell the flight attendant what kind of beverage you want...
...doesn’t have to be this way. No one internets the Internet or webs the web—we’ve stuck with obscure transportation or shopping metaphors: surf (perhaps stolen from television), browse, or navigate. We don’t go iPodding-rather, we listen to an iPod—and whatever it would mean to mp3 something, it’s not obvious I’ve ever done it.Still, history suggests a great diversity of ways in which we’ve attached verbs to technology. When the car was invented...