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...life," he remembers. "I'm on the bus, I'm walking up and down the aisles of Safeway, you know? I'm sitting watching TV, and a thought will come to me." By Christmas 2001 he was finally ready to write. He sat down at his computer--a loaner from his office--and poured out the entire book in seven months flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Top of the World | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...stuff. Paige, 9, plays a helicopter-flying game on the Icebox while Stuart, 11, stands nearby, using the tablet's browser to start his science homework. Later their mother takes over the Icebox to print Allrecipes.com's instructions for Beef-and-Noodle Bake (using an HP ink-jet, another loaner, that sits where a toaster oven might once have been). All that connectivity helps keep the family together in one place (though Dory still runs downstairs out of habit to check her e-mail). But those tasks could be tackled from an ordinary laptop rigged to a home network much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: Tomorrow's Kitchen | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...Hampshire conservation officer descended from a helicopter, loaner snowshoes in hand, to rescue the wayward hikers...

Author: By John J. Obrien, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Rescued After Night on N.H. Mountain | 3/15/2001 | See Source »

connectedness and immediacy that supports study at Harvard," said Heather Cole, librarian of Hilles and Lamont libraries. "It follows the introduction of loaner laptops...a service that has proved enormously popular and is likely to grow, both in Lamont and Hilles...

Author: By Justin D. Gest, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lamont To Get Wireless Ethernet | 2/8/2001 | See Source »

...just a matter of time," said the official. Next Ayyash's hunters created problems with his phone line. Through intermediaries, he sent the phone for repair to a Gaza shopkeeper, who forwarded it to an Israeli mobile-phone company, whereupon security officials intercepted it. They sent back a "temporary" loaner, whose earpiece was packed with a tiny but potent bomb. On the morning of Ayyash's death, they phoned him, confirmed his voice on the line and set off the explosives by remote control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: DEATH COMES CALLING | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

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