Word: packs
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...Aside from the horsemeat question, there are more, uh, meaty issues on the table in California, of course. The original Meathead himself, Rob Reiner, is fronting for a California proposition that would tack a 50 cent-per-pack increase onto the price of cigarettes. Smoke of another kind -- medical marijuana -- gets a look in five states and the District of Columbia (no, Marion Barry is not behind this), while abortion-limiting proposals come before the voters in two more states. In Hawaii, voters are being asked to decide the fate of same-sex marriages. Our favorite resolution? In four states...
...standard equipment--items such as a computerized traction-control system for the Chrysler 300M, and a keyless entry system for the BMW models that also lets individual family members program their own sound, seating and climate-control preferences. (The claim in Detroit is that today's autos pack more computer power than moon rockets did in the 1960s...
...Steve's next band was equally impolitic; he named it Rapeman. Rapeman was quieter than Big Black, but this is relative. It had a human drummer, for one thing. Rapeman had only one album; it was named Two Nuns and a Pack Mule. The best song builds slowly from a single guitar and frequent silences; then it adds a bass line, then some white noise and then Steve's voice. The song is hypnotic, even lovely, but in typical Albini fashion, this song is called "Kim Gordon's Panties" and features classy lyrics like "If I had that to come...
Despite the loss of freshman Jussi Utriainen, one of the squad's top runners who left Harvard to attend business school in Finland, Harvard is still fielding a very strong pack, thanks mostly to a great depth of talent...
...accident. NASA moved to calm fears Monday: "They won't be infesting space," laughed payload coordinator Rud Moe. It is, after all, worth $5,000 to the agency if the bugs check in and check out. All the same, perhaps the 77-year-old senator should remember to pack an emergency can of Raid...