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...Last week details were published on the Internet of a secret report by the Parliament's own internal auditors that revealed a catalogue of scams used by some MEPs to pocket portions of their annual grant of $295,000 per member to hire office staff...
...Several weeks later the soldiers were asked to make a financial donation to the family. Several thousand dollars were raised and given to the family. Ben says he gave $33. "That's all I had in my pocket," he says. "I wasn't too happy about it. I didn't feel that it was the right way to handle it." Some of the other soldiers agreed. "It made us look like we were liable or trying to cover it up or something," says...
...puck squirts into the Harvard zone, and Donato hops up on the bench to get a better look. He takes some notes during the television timeout, then says a word to his players as he tucks the papers back into his coat pocket...
Whipping out an unwieldy pocket dictionary midconversation is often embarrassing, but in a place as linguistically complex as China, an English-Chinese dictionary can be indispensable. One solution is PlecoDict, a program for Palm devices and Pocket PCs that includes up to five dictionaries. You can find words by searching in English or in Chinese--by romanized spelling or character. The software also includes a flash-card program, so you can learn new words while you're stuck in Beijing traffic...
...fill up an entire jump drive. Don’t make that face you always make! I’m not complaining—I’m just saying. I miss the days when I could fold you up and put you in my pocket...