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...group I have found useful is comp.sys.laptops, where laptop computer users get together to share the joys and woes of owning lug-around systems. Many also look here for insider tips on purchasing or maintaining laptops...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: P.C. CORNER | 11/23/1993 | See Source »

Some people never recover from reading Tom Wolfe. Not the white-suited dandy who lit a bonfire under the vanities, but the big lug from Asheville, North Carolina, who said you can't go home again. Symptoms of the disease are truly terrible: a bloviation of the prose, with cliches clanging at irregular intervals; a golly-gee nostalgia for the glitz of Manhattan when one was , young, yearning and oh-so-talented; and, for a few, an incurable lust to strew names like sunflower seeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Willie Boy Was Here | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...Newark, New Jersey, and up the west side of the Hudson River, three locomotives lug 63 flatbed freight cars -- almost a mile of Conrail train for United Parcel and the U.S. Postal Service, due in California in 72 hours. Engineer Jim Metzger, 42, flicks his eyes like beacons from digital screens inside his cab to the roadbed and back -- right hand on the throttle controlling 11,400 horses, left hand on the three-tone whistle, two longs, a short and a long at every crossing. Past suburban backyards and friendly waves, through the West Point tunnel, rolling from 35 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: BACK AT FULL THROTTLE | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

Tired of writing out your noted in thar scrawl you call handwriting? There's a new alterntive, if you're willing to lug just five or six extra pounds around to your classes...

Author: By Haibin Hu, | Title: P.C. CORNER | 3/2/1993 | See Source »

...small group of seasoned spelunkers, hardy souls who love squirming through tight spots and tromping through mud, such a venture is as pleasant and relaxing as a Sunday-afternoon jaunt. Nor are the trekkers hindered by the surveying instruments, acidity meter and other tools they lug along the way. Led by geologists Art and Peg Palmer, these scientific adventurers are trying to determine what the evolution of the cavern can tell them about prehistoric climates, the ecological health of the surrounding region -- even the likelihood of finding oil in limestone deposits around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Subterranean Secrets | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

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