Word: prefered
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...Fast and the Furious and its sequel showed that kids these days prefer a rebuilt Honda Civic to a handmade Ferrari. The import-car "tuner" craze--a cultural blend of hip-hop, Tokyo pop and Old West outlaw--is expanding its influence into the toy industry, with the arrival of the new XMODS radio-controlled cars at Radio Shack. The $49.95 racers, replicas of cars popular on the real-life scene, can be customized with authentically reproduced big-league gear, including Bomex body kits and Eibach suspension springs. Under the hood, there's more tweaking: you can swap engines...
...coffee? If Starbucks can manage that trick, perhaps it can make wi-fi profitable too. But one thing is almost certain: relying on cash-strapped students isn't likely to work. Trouble is, the much sought-after mobile professionals who can afford the wi-fi fee also prefer a more private space where they can conduct business and talk on a cell phone in peace...
Kevin G. Galligan, a junior at Columbia, says Lerner is helpful in centralizing mail delivery, but that students prefer to go to the library to study and elsewhere to hang...
...sure, bin Laden has urged his followers to head for Iraq to wage jihad, and hundreds may have answered his call. It may well be that some of the suicide terror strikes on soft targets are the work of foreigners, the Baathists being a secular lot who prefer to live to fight another day (as their surrender of Baghdad six months ago amply illustrates). Nobody really knows precisely who is behind the terror strikes or the escalating guerrilla war against U.S. and coalition forces. Besides the spectacular suicide strikes, in the past week alone there have more than 230 attacks...
...matter how bright the lights, tasty the candy, or readily-available the contraceptives, laziness may be the biggest determining factor for choosing CVS. “Maybe freshmen prefer the CVS, but I’m an athlete and don’t really need shampoo this late,” says Jason P. Brown ’04, a member of the baseball team. “It’s too far for me,” echoed blockmate Jon P. Doochin...