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...limit, thus extending their uses in unexpected ways. Instead of a public phone, this is a public umbrella, or Street Umbrella, as they have dubbed it. A mobile phone is incorporated into the handle, and the point acts as an antenna. The umbrella protects the speaker from rain, sun or the rest of the street's noise and activities so that he or she can have a conversation. Set into the wall behind the Street Umbrella is a screen with which users can navigate the telephone menu. The screen could also show the person the user is talking with...
...calendar page. The list reminded me of nothing so much as the cardboard-and-bed-sheet boat in the New Year’s Eve parade, that other embodiment of the promise of a new year untainted by cynicism or disappointment. Before long the cardboard would succumb to the rain and wilt; before long my blockmate would stay up too late, eat unhealthily, neglect her parents, become a stranger to the MAC. But in the interim the boat bounced down the street, and my blockmate’s list, spiky with exclamation points, shone at the corner of her desk...
After a weekend of rain and above-freezing temperatures, only the ducks are now braving the icy floes of the Charles River. Last week, however, they had human company...
...well as the criticism and publicity it was designed to generate - helped secure success abroad, too. One shows Lena's face as she apparently masturbates, while the video for their worldwide hit All the Things She Said shows the girls in skimpy school uniforms kissing and caressing in the rain while singing, "When they stop and stare, it don't worry me/ Cause I'm feeling for her what she's feeling for me." The novelty of their schoolgirl lesbian antics - Tatu is an acronym of the Russian for "This girl loves that girl" - has some British tabloids drooling over...
...next 36 hours, the rebels were subjected to a suffocating air bombardment. According to U.S. military spokesman Colonel Roger King, American planes dropped 19 "cave busters," 2,000-pound bombs that blast deep into the ground. This was followed by a rain of 500-pounders and rocket and cannon fire from AC?130 gunships and Apache helicopters. "It looked like (the rebels) had lost their minds," says Raziq. "They were running in every direction." By Raziq's count, 22 rebels were killed and another 13 were captured. The U.S. military reported no casualties...