Word: mini
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...display of silk autumnal bouquets, zipped behind the head of a female cashier and pierced a hole through thelamp over the register of lane No. 5. Emerging on the other side, it whizzed over a Christmas-ornament display and finally ricocheted off a shelf of Inspiration for the Heart mini prayer books. Unlike every shot to come, the bullet hurt...
...desensitized, spice-assailed palate, only faintly challenging, and had a number of irrelevant vegetables cluttering up the dish (although on hindsight perhaps they were meant to temper the spiciness, such as it is): pineapples, potatoes and cherry tomatoes. The traditional accompaniments, I believe, are tiny Thai eggplants—mini-grenades of acridity, the size of a blueberry, spurting an intensely bitter juice when bitten. But the curry itself was smooth and velvety, laden with an appropriately immoderate amount of coconut milk...
...France Telecom. But most of the major handset manufacturers - including Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola, Matsushita (Panasonic) and Siemens - are all betting on an alternative system made by the London-based consortium Symbian. These manufacturers will want to convince consumers they can Web surf via phone without installing a mini-version of Windows. Assuming Opera's technology catches on, it could make big money. Earlier, cruder versions of Opera's mobile browser are currently bundled with Symbian's operating system. Opera gets a one-off licensing fee for each mobile phone sold with one of its browsers inside. Manufacturers...
...matching the color of one's underwear to the skirt a new priority - but times have rarely been worse. Of course, short skirts on runway models don't necessarily mean short skirts on millions of women. Judging by the way even highly paid professionals were struggling to keep their minis in place at Gucci, the trend might not catch on. Fashion editors in Milan suggested wearing them as tunic tops paired with trousers. Retailers in Milan loved the looks, not because they think women will rush to buy barely-there dresses, but because they know that for every edgy trend...
...mini-train on Church Street took kids and their parents on a zigzag ride through the streets. For three dollars, Cambridge resident Tim Fitzgerald and his 18-month son Ronan rode the R&D Express, while wife Djamila looked on from the safety of the sidewalk...