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...quit producing the Far Side cartoon nearly nine years ago, has no intention of ever picking up a drawing pencil again. This is the first time in months he has seen his downtown Seattle office, which his business-manager wife and assistant use to filter the paperwork needed to pump out Far Side greeting cards. Larson, whose surreal, pothead-meets-scientist take on humans' overestimation of their species made cartoons cool, prefers his nondrawing, noncelebrated existence. "Life is good," he says, sitting at a wooden conference table, holding an antique specimen jar of chattering-teeth hand puppets, momentarily optimistic before...
Near the end of the first half, an unguarded Slager attempted a pump fake so transparent that Balestracci and senior defensive tackle Jon Berrier practically had time to grin at each other before simultaneously pouncing on the hapless Brown quarterback...
With a Pulitzer Prize, international sex appeal and a national tour to pump her new novel, Jhumpa Lahiri has gotten used to seeing her name in the limelight. Her award-winning debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, catapulted this one-time Cambridge resident into literary stardom, and not surprisingly, generated no small amount of buzz among a First Parish Church crowd last week...
Bonalle says the "light came on" for him nearly three years ago, thanks to his wife, who uses ExxonMobil's RFID-based Speedpass fob to pay for gasoline at the pump. At least 6 million people have used Speedpass since its 1997 introduction. But the technology spread far beyond the pump this year after all three major card companies--Amex, Visa and MasterCard--endorsed interoperability standards for RFID payments. Besides the Amex pilot, there have been trials by MasterCard (for its PayPass card in Orlando, Fla.) and Visa (which plans to use RFID-ready phones in Asia). Someday you will...
...launch of China's first satellite, in 1970. The mission electrified millions of radicals in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, when the satellite broadcast the song The East Is Red back to Earth. Legend has it that technicians pressurized the fuel for those first rockets with a bicycle pump...