Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with custom-made driving directions while stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. I've looked up local movie listings, browsed synopses of techtrends on Slashdot.org (a website whose motto is "News for Nerds") and snagged up-to-the-minute Yankees scores. The Palm fits comfortably in my shirt pocket, runs for a month on a pair of AAA batteries, has an invitingly readable screen and a cute, clip-up antenna, just like a Star Trek communicator. It is perfect and adorable in every respect save one: it costs way, way too much...
...After wrapping up the Rolfe, Harvard punched its ticket to the expanded 64-team NCAA field when it picked Princeton's pocket in Game 3 of the Ivy League Championship Series, rallying for three runs in the top of the ninth for a 5-4 victory...
...POCKET CHANGE The Susan B. Anthony coin failed miserably in its mission to drive the dollar bill to extinction. But it has found a niche in recent years at stamp and vending machines and rail stations--so useful that the U.S. Mint has finally depleted reserves of the coin minted two decades ago. It will have to issue a final 1999 batch to meet demand before Susan B.'s replacement, the gold-colored Sacagawea, makes its debut early next year...
...recovered in 1933 and on a shelf where a Chinese climber reporting seeing the remains of an "old English dead" in 1975. When the climbers reached under the body, they found letters from Mallory's family, poignantly close to his heart, as well as a broken altimeter, a pocket knife, monogrammed handkerchiefs and other personal items. Intriguingly, a pair of sun goggles found in a pocket suggest that he was trying to descend in fading light. There was, however, no sign of Irvine. With the Mallory family's permission, the team took a snippet of tissue from the forearm...
...expedition, which is being filmed by a joint Nova/BBC crew and is posting communiques on two websites mountainzone.com pbs.org/wgbh/nova) will continue searching in the few remaining weeks of Everest's busy spring climbing season. Besides Irvine's remains, the expedition is eager to find a Kodak vest-pocket folding camera given to Mallory just before the ascent. If he and his young partner made it to the summit, they would undoubtedly have photographed themselves at the top of the world--and those images would probably still be retrievable from film kept in so deep a freeze even after three...