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However, lawmakers who currently add to their incomes with honoraria for speeches would have to give that up. Current rules allow House members to pocket honoraria totaling up to 30 percent of their salaries, while senators can keep 40 percent...
...When Motorola developed Micro TAC, the first pocket-size cellular phone, engineers made the device sturdy enough to be dropped from a height of 4 ft. onto a concrete surface without breaking...
According to Tim Zagat, whose pocket-size books rate restaurants in 14 American cities, game has taken off this season partly because of "an overall interest in finer foods." Joseph Baum, co-owner of New York City's Rainbow Room and Aurora restaurants, agrees. "Flavor is in again, and game is full of flavor," he says. "It's evocative of the past, of tradition. It's romantic." This season Aurora has set up a special game menu for its dinner guests. Last week's offerings included medallions of venison with dried fruit, saddle of hare with black- and white-peppercorn...
Later Hine worked for nearly a decade taking pictures of child laborers, sometimes gulling suspicious mill owners into thinking he was there to photograph their machinery, all the while keeping one hand in his pocket for clandestine note taking. He saw his pictures as evidence, "photographic proof" that would move public opinion to demand laws to remove children from factories. His data would be the grime written upon their young faces; his evidence would be the weariness in their eyes...
...Kenya is striking back. In his breast pocket, Woodley has an envelope stuffed with 30,000 Kenyan shillings ($1,428) -- money for informants. The antipoaching units are exchanging their World War I bolt-action rifles for automatic assault weapons. Within the past year the APUs have killed 18 poachers under a shoot-to-kill order. Dozens of senior wildlife-department personnel have been interrogated, and some have been relieved of their duties. These measures seem to be working. In the past month not one fresh carcass has been found. "Everyone is keen as mustard," says Woodley, beaming...