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...somebody to go take care of it. When I started running for governor in 1977 I was being overwhelmed with information and so at that point I took this habit and tried to organize it on a more consistent basis. [He pulls a petite blue log from his pocket.] Here’s the one I’m using now. Numbered 10/05 A, which means it’s October 2005 and this is the first notebook I’ve used this month...
...your article about the Roman Catholic Church's efforts to connect with young Europeans [Aug. 15]. In referring to Pope John Paul II's popularity with young people, you quoted a German Cardinal: "The girls in St. Peter's Square who cheer the Pope have the Pill in their pockets." I don't think the Cardinal was referring simply to contraceptives. He was making a general statement about many aspects of contemporary sexuality and behavior proscribed by the Catholic Church. Some Cardinals are concerned that we young people are given too much freedom. In fact there are many...
Cross Talk You're on vacation in China, trying to get directions to a hotel, when you realize you've left your Mandarin phrase book on the plane. Fortunately, you have your Pocket PC, equipped with IBM's Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator. MASTOR recognizes both Mandarin and English, automatically translating what it hears into the other tongue, so two people who speak different languages can have a conversation. In a TIME test, when told the phrase "I would like to rent a motorboat," MASTOR translated it audibly and flashed a picture of a boat onscreen. Although...
Seven plays later, O’Hagan was flushed from the pocket, rolled right, and again found Widman open in the endzone. This time O’Hagan lofted the ball towards the back right pylon behind the Leopards’ secondary for a 15-yard score...
...uniforms of the attendees wore a light dusting of perspiration by the time the lights dimmed. T-shirts, some silkscreened at home, grew dark under arms and in Roschach-looking blots at the smalls of their backs. Pants slung low by hands buried in pockets gripped waists, made tight by hands turned to fists with anticipation. Shoes (All-Stars, slip-ons, ankle boots, and Asics), well scuffed by summer shows, fidgeted.It was Tuesday night. The bartender downstairs at the Middle East winced under the weight of a crate of Pabst. She passed cans back through the crowdlike buckets...