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Sometimes I wish there was an alternative to alternative (a thorny pipe dream, kind of like, "What comes after post modern?") There could be, too, and without changing a single tune or reshelving a single CD. All we need to do is change the way we listen. Pay attention to what a song is rather than what it's not. Find a tune you like and have faith...
Sitting on a corner in the heart of Central Square, Weiner's Pipe and Book Shop has been selling newspapers, magazines, lottery tickets and an array of other items for over 25 years...
...long. But Western intelligence agents in the Middle East are nervously tracking another design that is much easier to build. Unlike earlier models, the new weapon uses ordinary 1/8-in. bridge wire, a steel fiber common in the construction of suspension bridges. Spun while red-hot around large-diameter steel pipe, the wire strengthens the barrel enough to withstand the pressures of firing long-distance shells. Syria, Libya and other potential users would have no trouble manufacturing such guns...
...those unsightly production blemishes. Until recently, the wires that held up "flying" actors had to be erased laboriously, frame by frame. Now the cables that supported Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell can be removed digitally -- and the background restored the same way -- with no evidence of tampering. The 2-in. pipe that supported Michael J. Fox's space-age skateboard in Back to the Future was erased to give the impression that Fox was zipping around in midair. For Memoirs of an Invisible Man, computers removed Chevy Chase from his clothes, then filled in the displaced background. "If there...
Such an operation, we soon learn, can be messy. In one case, a drug smuggler puts cocaine in a red balloon and flushes it down a toilet. At the end of the plumbing pipe sit two Santana lieutenants, who dutifully pick through excrement to retrieve the contraband...