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...takes my hand with calm assurance and begins feeling for vibrations. The bottom section of my left palm yields results. "O.K., more hydration, more vitamin C," she reports. After a while, I press for a stock-market tip. She directs me to smartmoney.com...
Joakim Berg, Kent's singer and songwriter, strutted around the stage doing a Swedish version of the funky chicken, which involved puffing out his chest, slapping it with one palm and draping the microphone cord around his neck. Berg clearly enjoyed playing to a receptive, albeit unknown, crowd. Not one to miss a chance to connect with the audience, he dedicated the song "Elvis" to an enthusiastic fan who was wearing an enormous pair of ski goggles. Kent is an incredibly talented, charismatic band-hopefully they are only tasting the beginning of their overseas success...
...days later, I toured the University of California, Santa Barbara, where palm trees shaded benches and beach sand dusted the campus network of bike paths. I saw Roller Girl en route to class. UCSB had nothing to do with my cold, stuffy college. No comparison possible...
...vice, the auto use a tomato." While the idea of potato vice intrigued me, I was getting discouraged by my machine's tin ear. I spent a week with Dragon Naturally-Speaking Mobile ($250), a 4-oz. tape recorder that holds 40 minutes of speech and fits in the palm of my hand. It's designed to take dictation...
...Barnes found the scene harrowing. "The situation is totally chaotic," he says. "Much of the city is under the control of 15- and 16-year-old kids who will shoot at anything." Barnes filed his story from Freetown on a borrowed satellite phone from under the cover of a palm tree as a muggy quiet settled over the city. His dispatches, and his courage, provided the outside world with its first glimpse of Sierra Leone's nightmare in more than a week, since the last journalists fled...