Word: potatoe
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While the selection at Amazon is far greater than even at the megabookstores, and the shopping is PC-potato easy, it's seldom cheaper and certainly not faster. Amazon chops an impressive 30% or 40% off the list prices of most hardcovers, but standard shipping adds back about $4 and takes three to seven business days. Next-day shipping runs $11, eating nearly every penny of the $11.58 you'd save on Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full, for instance, compared with the full list price...
...built a few houses on land their father owned in Manhasset, N.Y. And in 1941 the Levitts won a government contract to provide 2,350 housing units for defense workers in Norfolk, Va. Once the fighting ended, they brought the lessons of that experience to 1,000 acres of potato farms on New York's Long Island 25 miles east of Manhattan. On July 1, 1947, Levitt, then 40, broke ground on the first of what would be 17,000 homes...
...REMOTE First came the remote, then came the couch potato. The wireless Space Commander, which used ultrasonics to activate television controls, was invented by Robert Adler in 1956 and remained an industry standard for 25 years. Remotes now work by using an infrared light beam...
Does CGI spell the end of the old school? Not by a long shot: the ease with which the crudely drawn two-dimensional, or 2-D, worlds of South Park and The Simpsons have won over America's couch-potato masses is proof that story matters more than even the most eye-popping special effects. "Sooner or later, all this stuff is going to seem antiquated," admits Andrew Stanton, the co-director and screenwriter of A Bug's Life. "The script is the only thing that isn't going to deteriorate over time...
...Turkey's hot potato, however, doesn't get any cooler in Germany -- which is home to 2.2 million Turks and 600,000 Kurds. "Germany is reluctant to extradite Ocalan because it doesn't want to import Turkey's war," says TIME Bonn correspondent Ursula Sautter. "Ocalan's movement has always had a foothold in the Kurdish community here, and there's good reason to suspect there would be trouble if he were put on trial here." If Ocalan becomes a defendant without a courtroom, it will be an ironic echo of his followers' claim to be a people without...