Word: protector
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TRIPLE PLAY Most CD burners have looked about as cool as a pocket protector. That is until Sony unveiled its Digital Relay portable CD burner ($400) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. It works like any other CD burner: hook it up to a PC, and you can back up your hard drive, store digital images or burn MP3s onto a blank CD. When you're ready to roll, it turns into a portable CD player for store-bought CDs or the custom-made ones you burned yourself. You won't have to be embarrassed...
...personality traits that determine an affinity for computers seem perfectly aligned with the slightly compulsive nature of pedal steel players. This could be some offshoot of the pocket-protector tree, musical nerds who found experimenting with different pedal setups even more fun than building Estes rockets, and I find myself wondering if my lifelong disaffinity with even the simplest math separates me from my fellow travelers. Like all cults, pedal steel has its own subgenus, and in the field this particular cladistic branch appears to consist mostly of middle-aged working-class white men in warmup jackets and Nikes...
...privilege did. Many of them forswore their trust funds, dodged the draft, grew their hair, switched from beer to pot. But in a way, the opposite happened with W. He may have been the family rebel, by their standards, but even from the earliest days, he was also the protector, fiercely defending his dad. His father ran for the Senate in Texas in 1964, opposing the civil rights bill and supporting Barry Goldwater all the way. His opponent, Senator Ralph Yarborough, lost no chance to paint Bush as a preppy-come-lately, not one of us. "Elect a Senator from...
...phenotypic spectrum of the trait (for example, in BPAD from mild depression to rapid cycling BPAD)? Must a critical threshold be reached for manifestation of the illness? Even if a person has all of the genes that code for a disorder might its expression be prevented or mitigated by protector genes (These genes manufacture factors that can switch off the genes that are doing the damage)? Genes of this type are already known to be important in the expression of BPAD, though how big a role they play is anyone's guess. Dwarves born in to families where BPAD...
...plot, familiar from the 1964 epic The Fall of the Roman Empire, is this: in A.D. 180, Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) is ailing. He anoints his best general, Maximus (Crowe), a man whose motto is "Strength and Honor," as Protector of Rome until it can again become a republic. Before announcing his decision, Marcus informs his son Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), who lusts to be Emperor. Commodus is displeased by the news; he smothers Marcus in his bosom, murdering him with a filial embrace, and proclaims himself Emperor. In short order, the nasty boy has swiped Maximus' job, ordered...