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...country is not conducive to the transmittance of cell-phone waves. So now I’m back in Cambridge without a phone, and though occasionally I catch myself admiring the compactness or the brilliant blue buttons of the latest spiffy cellphone model, I don’t miss mine at all. When I am suddenly plunged into a Twilight Zone moment in which I am the only person on a street without a cell phone glued to my face, I am unsettled but also satisfied that I can take notice of and soak in the surrounding cityscape in quiet...
...police feel about the Alert system? Local law enforcement officials believe the system works, but they say they need more money to implement it successfully. Sensing a need (and a political gold mine), U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kay Bailey Hutchison have introduced legislation to boost funding for training and equipment
Poets are the new pundits. As the debate over Iraq mounts, verse more than ever is the genre of choice. What got Tom Paulin into trouble is getting others a lot of attention: harnessing the moral power of words to mine the political significance...
...joints. He clasps his hands over the table. “I want to go nationwide with my restaurant,” says Pappas, a three-time Mass. state bodybuilding champion and health food entrepreneur. “Florida would be nice—that state is a gold mine. So is California. Out there, it’s a mecca of health...
...minute drive from hay bails in one direction, and the ghetto in another direction. Our downtown area even has bums. That’s one of the three criteria for official status as a city: cross walks, tall buildings and bums. I was talking to a friend of mine from Berkeley, Calif., and she informed me that no one there goes fishing. I was saddened by this, but probably no more saddened than she would feel if she learned that no one in Kansas cross-dresses...