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...computer store for about a dollar per gigabyte. You need to hook up the hard drive to your PC or Mac, install a free piece of software called BlessTivo, open the TiVo box and attach its new brain. (Reverse the process, and you can make a backup of precious TV recordings on your computer.) Most TiVos have space for two drives running side by side, so you don't need to lose shows and settings on the original...
...clown fish) who learn the onerous joys of fatherhood. Like many classic Disney cartoons, and Spielberg fables, Finding Nemo is about the traumatic separation of a child from his parent. The refreshing difference here is that Nemo dramatizes the anxiety (and adventures) a parent undergoes searching for his wayward, precious...
...Committee secured to the Yankees-Red Sox game. It was a first-come, first-served competition over e-mail. A friend sent an e-mail at 8:00:09, instead of 8:00:00 and still managed to get beaten. About 1000 seniors tried to get one of 200 precious tickets...
...December but tried to tough it out to save the cost of a hospital visit. He was diagnosed three weeks ago with tuberculosis. He sold his chickens and ducks to buy $20 worth of medicine. At his pine-board house on a hillside in Guangxi, he lays out five precious pill bottles and points out a Mao Zedong calendar with an "X" over each day he's taken the drugs, which are quickly running out. He's already drawn a $60 loan from the bank to pay for pills, seed and fertilizer, but is too weak to work his fields...
...availability of physical comforts beyond basic necessities is also growing. Lower prices of raw materials and energy signal that they are less scarce, easier to find and cheaper to produce. Aluminum was considered a rare precious metal on par with gold and silver only 100 years ago, but technology has made its extraction cheap and its supply essentially unlimited. Demand for just 12 metals makes up more than 99 percent of world demand for all metals, and supply of those 12 is now considered inexhaustible. Oil prices have fallen over tenfold in the last century while the amount of proven...