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CHEAPER GAS, PUMPED FOR YOU Hate jumping out of your car to pump gas, but rather not pay for full service? This summer, Shell Oil plans to test its Smart Pump automatic fueling system, in which a large robotic arm opens your gas cap, fills the tank, closes the cap, and bills your credit card, all in about three minutes, while you relax or buy coffee. First available in Indianapolis, the Smart Pump will require a special gas cap (installed by Shell) and will read a sensor installed in the car window to detect your fuel type, locate your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology Mar. 15, 1999 | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...Yard buildings, and students bought their own coal and stored it in the basement of Grays Hall. An editorial in an 1895 Crimson vehemently protested the lack of bathing facilities and lamented that the only water to be found was in the basement of each building or from the pump outside of Hollis. Today, the pump rests as a bizarre monument in the Yard, but to the boys banished for lack of money, the pump was their sole source of plumbing...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: The GOLD Coast | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...human female out of its traditional oxymoronic status. You gotta love a self-described "female chauvinist sow" who writes like Walt Whitman crossed with Erma Bombeck and depicts the vagina as a "Rorschach with legs." Woman: An Intimate Geography is a delicious cocktail of estrogen and amphetamine designed to pump up the ovaries as well as the cerebral cortex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Truth About The Female Body | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

They're Getting Pretty Good: With rookie sensation Paul Pierce complementing the talented Antoine Walker, the Celtics have their firs solid start since before Dee Brown even knew how to pump his sneakers. This Friday Check them out at the FleetCenter as they battle the troubled and injury-riddled Denver Nuggets. 7p.m., T-North Station...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE JOCK BLOCK | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

Instead of bowing before MTV's shiny-suit-ridden, treble-enhanced Jam of the Week, I pit myself against the MC I have yet to meet through lyrics saturated with wordplay and allusions and urban imagery and political consciousness. I pump my fist when a colleague on stage instructs me to, roam sidewalks with a perennially playing walkman, love few things more than a huddle of cats dropping science to beatboxes and split cheap cigars open while listening to my newly-purchased Roots album (by the way, buy it now, it's truly ridiculous...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, | Title: ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING: The MC's Job, Apparently | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

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