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...press conference roaring drunk and tugging at a bottle of aquavit. During a conference on arms control in Atlanta early this month, Turner dined with the likes of Jimmy Carter and Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. When the conversation began to bore Turner, he produced a tiny TV from his pocket, set the device on the table and proceeded to watch a Braves game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Captain Outrageous Opens Fire | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...lives" that our foreign policy was jeopardized. Some word-processor warriors were quite ready to sacrifice the hostages in their eagerness for "bold" retaliatory action, usually unspecified. C.D. Jackson, who served on General Eisenhower's wartime staff, used to call such macho talk "making tiny fists in your pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: TV Examines Its Excesses | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...familiar embarrassment when he overhears his classmates making fun of his grandmother: “Jimmy Snyder imitated Grandma to the rest of the cast and crew. … Outside, I was cracking up too. Inside, I was wishing that she were tucked way in a portable pocket, or that she’d also had an invisibility suit?...

Author: By Cara B. Eisenpress, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Foer's Book 'Incredibly Close' to 9/11 | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...European counterparts honed their games at colleges and country clubs, Singh, a Fiji native of Indian descent, barnstormed the world, playing in Nigeria and Morocco, even working as a bouncer in Scotland to make ends meet. "Playing in different countries, with pretty much no money in your pocket, you kind of get a different attitude about life," he says. "You're a harder player." So while Mickelson is flying Cessnas and Woods is fishing, Singh is hitting golf balls as though his next meal depends on shooting under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf's Great Divide | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...want to spend that kind of cash on a pocket player. Less memory equals lower price; a 5-GB hard drive can store up to 2,500 songs, enough for many people, which is one reason the iPod mini is as popular as its big brother. That's also why the mini is attracting competition from devices such as the iRiver H10. (An iRiver ad campaign features headphone-wearing models biting into apples over the tag line SWEETER ONE.) The H10 is about the same size as the mini, has about the same storage capacity and likewise comes in designer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronics: Attack of the Anti-iPods | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

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