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...FRENCH POD CLASS Dozens of free sessions for both beginning and intermediate language learners are supplemented by lesson transcripts and exercises that can be downloaded and printed...
...reef around the diver's paradise of Roatán, the best-known of Honduras' storied Bay Islands. And although Antigua and Costa Rica are relatively safe, burglaries are up in Honduras, driving the development of gated communities. But Bill and Judith Allred, who in 1998 bought a pod-style home in Roatán conceived by the Canadian designer Hal Sorrenti, say common sense helps ward off crime. "This isn't St. Barts," says Judith. "You don't go out at night wearing jewels...
...large cities when aggrieved young men gather at swimming pools and beaches, in car parks, nightclubs and at football games. It's not a clash of religions, civilizations or even ideologies. They may dress or have their hair cut differently, but the combatants are pea brains in a pod: Australian-born, idle and stunted. They're spectators in the new economy, and the rise of the smart worker has left them smelling like losers...
...backpack) that learns to mimic the wearer's gait and posture; bioelectric sensors pick up signals transmitted from the brain to the muscles, so it can anticipate movements the moment the wearer thinks of them. A commercial version is in the works. Just don't let it near the pod-bay doors. Next Product: Sporting Life...
...memories or trying to avoid sights that bring about such memories. Many are tender scenes of married life, and quite a few are humorous. For example, while waiting to visit Quintana at a hospital in New York, Didion recounts the day when three-year-old Quintana stuck a seed pod from their garden up her nose and her doctor had to be called away from a dinner party to remove it. Quintana apparently enjoyed such an adventure, and stuck another seed pod up her nose the next day in order to repeat it. Such moments provide a fuller range...