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...ever since I saw a photo. Your typical Cybiko looks like a walkie-talkie with a teensy typewriter keyboard cloned onto it, only cooler, since it comes in four translucent colors (if you count clear and black as colors, that is). Its primary function is wireless chat--you peck out messages on the keyboard and beam them to any other Cybiko users who happen to be around. While the device's range is 300 ft., each has a kind of repeater built in, so that a message can be relayed over great distances--if you could somehow assemble a chain...
...Charles Peck, a Springfield patrol officer who was severely injured in a cruiser accident and was declared legally dead, is fighting to get death benefits as his own survivor. He has been resuscitated...
Part of it is pure nostalgia. At the height of scooter mania in the 1950s, the sleek, steel-framed bikes were symbols of romantic escapism. Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn putted through Rome on a Vespa in Roman Holiday; it was a favorite toy of Hollywood's elite, including Gary Cooper and Jayne Mansfield. In 1960s England, while big, grease-sputtering Harleys were ridden by leather-clad Rockers, elegant Vespas were the signature of their archrivals--and regular rumble opponents--the fashionable Mods...
...each line and then to feed in a new sheet at the end of each page provide "micro-breaks" of the sort that doctors and physical therapists recommend for RSI prevention (the study remains to be done on the comparative incidence of RSI in touch-typers versus "hunt-and-peck"-ers, but it might prove instructional...
...stands tall against the gray London sky. Pigeons peck their way through stale breadcrumbs at the base of Lord Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square. Beefeaters--the red-coated protectors of the queen--escort crowds through the Tower of London into centuries past, when tyrannical monarchs severed heads and placed them on sticks to line the wooden bridges over the River Thames. Streets blur with red and black--the red of double-decker buses and the black of box-like taxis. This is the London everyone knows. But there is another London, where the neighborhood green grocer and ironmonger putter...