Word: pocketing
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...style didn't weigh me down, though bud lovers certainly will have to adjust. Though you can use the headphones at up to 30 feet from the iPod itself, this is really for close-in convenience. Instead of having a cord dangling awkwardly from your head down to your pocket, purse or backpack, you have the freedom to hide your iPod away. Set your playlist, drop it in your bag, then wander around, letting people on the sidewalk, at the gym or on the bus wonder where your music comes from...
...mention a Nobel Prize in 2000. Bragging wasn't his style, though, and he often credited Intel's Robert Noyce as the co-inventor of the integrated circuit, despite the fact that Noyce's silicon device came six months after Kilby filed his patent. (Another Kilby co-invention: the pocket calculator.) He was a consummate engineer who cared more about solving problems than getting rich or famous. For that, the information age will forever be in his debt. --By Chris Taylor
...like Abraham Lincoln all the time? It turns out they share only a few similarities--to a man, the Lincolns at the convention, which was held at a Marriott outside Detroit, were white; most turned 60 some time ago. Nearly all were grandfatherly hams who liked to flash their pocket watches or hand out shiny pennies and say, "Would you like a picture...
...path to the dam, then brought up a lumbering dragline whose huge bucket shovel began chewing a V-shaped wedge out of the 25-ft.-high levee. Twenty feet down, the shovel uncovered the fully clothed, badly decomposed bodies of three young men, lying side by side in a pocket of red clay. They had been dumped there while the dam was still being built, and in the weeks afterward a local contractor had unknowingly piled earth higher and higher on their primitive graves...
...weeks by speculative stock buying and takeover rumors, the company headed by Chairman David Roderick, 62, faced an $8 billion buyout offer from Carl Icahn, 50, chairman of Trans World Airlines. At week's end it was unclear whether Icahn sought control of USX or merely wanted to pocket a hefty profit for his efforts...