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...there remain tribes that are the last links to that changeless way of life, some making contact with the outside world for the first time last century; and there are many for whom the traditions of their ancestors are vibrantly alive. Yet in the cultural tug-of-war, the pull of modernity is powerful and relentless, and though some dig in their heels, the ties to tradition are beginning to fray...
...fitting outing for Caroline or Jack or Mary Grace (our children, who wouldn?t be allowed anyway as they are seven, five and five years of age), so I no longer go. But back then, when Berry was in charge of it, the tradition was for the bus to pull away from a specific curb in Westport, Connecticut. ?The trip starts in front of Mario?s bar,? Powers told me emphatically, when giving me my first marching orders. This only substantiated for me an already pretty solid conviction that such establishments played a large part in BLOHARDS lore. If this...
...always in these kinds of attacks, there was a tremendous amount of confusion, and unexplained incidents. Michelle Sinclair, 24, was eating lunch at a nearby restaurant when the events occurred at Warren Street. When police cordoned off the street she said, she saw a call pull up with two members of the British transport police inside. They went into the station and grabbed a tanned skinned man with shoulder length hair, wearing a backpack and hurried him into the back of the car. According to Sinclair, the man did not struggle as car sped...
...stream music from a computer on your home network. The remote's dock can be connected to a stereo input of your audio receiver or boom box. If you install the included Media Manager software on a PC that has a lot of MP3s, you can dock the remote, pull up songs and play them. When used in conjunction with a product like the D-Link MediaLounge or Philips' own Wireless Media Adapter, you can conduct music through your house while sitting on the couch...
...criticized as unresponsive if they take off one afternoon. She admires the freedom the employees in the ROWE program seem to enjoy. She changed to a four-day schedule after the birth of her second child last year and struggles every day with the push of work and the pull of family. Still, she is not convinced that ROWE will work for her. She already checks e-mail and voice mail on her "day off." Will ROWE push even more work into her down time? Without everyone in the office, she asks, "How do you make sure that the person...