Word: pod
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...SIGNS OF THE TIMES The Trial Of Bureaucracy In the land of Kafka, one small village is fighting back against ubiquitous, omnipotent bureaucracy. Provoked by a steep rise in paperwork in recent years, the Bohemian hamlet of Jindrichovice pod Smrkem (pop. 630) has declared itself out of bounds to all uninvited employees of the Czech central government and its various subsidiaries. Signs at entrances to the village and its train station depict the crossed-out pictogram of a civil servant...
...tiny catalog business selling suits made by a New Hampshire sample maker out of fabric Matthias bought retail. The first catalog brought in $3,000 in sales. Last year the enterprise, which now includes 1,000 stores in three price ranges (Motherhood, Mimi Maternity and A Pea in the Pod), grossed half a billion dollars...
...retailers. However, this is the cult of Abercrombie. Kids wants to be the models that grace the pages of the A&F Quarterly and adults want to do them. And, if you want to get in on the action, there may be an opening (and perhaps even an escape pod to the planet Ab) with your name on it. Just make sure to get in a few thousand sit-ups before the interview...
...This spring three spacecraft are scheduled to take off for Mars. But in the greatest challenge to the primacy of the U.S. space program since Sputnik, the honor of confirming life on Mars is not expected to fall to some brash NASA spacecraft, but to a quirky British-built pod assembled by a shaggy-haired English egghead. The British space program hasn't had a leading role since James Bond went into orbit in Moonraker. But in June a small, unmanned pod named Beagle 2 (after Charles Darwin's famous ship) has a chance to change all that. Masterminded...
...most likely reason. There are, of course, risks. Mars has been exceptionally hostile to visitors: fewer than 10 of the 31 missions to the planet have succeeded. But if any of these missions can break the jinx, they might unravel a bewitching mystery. And if the little pod called Beagle takes the prize, somewhere Charles Darwin will be smiling...