Word: readerly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...reader, you may not meet the editor-in-chief all that often. But I wanted you to appreciate what a good friend and advocate you've had in Norm for the past 11 years, and to be as enthusiastic as I am about the extraordinary magazine experience--on paper and beyond--that I'm certain John Huey will bring you in the years ahead...
...such a small device, the 770 is loaded with features. In the original release, its system software packaged with items such as a web browser, an e-mail manager, a news reader. It's built-in media player and Internet radio are great for listening to MP3s you transfer from a memory card, or to radio programs from the net, just by pasting a station's streaming link into the player. Subsequent system updates will ship other programs, but 770 owners can already download a universal instant messenger program plus a bunch of utilities and games, all for free...
...loading? The author offers practical, safe advice for dodging the bullet as long as possible. "Many of my patients don't want to know how to live a healthy life," says Clayton. "They want to know how to live their unhealthy lives better." So the good doc instructs the reader on how to minimize the risks: Quitting smoking by the time you're 30 mitigates almost all of the damage from smoking; taking a dose of 1600 IUs of extract of prickly pear cactus before drinking will reduce your hangover; it's healthy to drop...
...some will forever be associated with the “what is in the drinking water at that no-name school?” category. I think I can fairly say that the Evergreen College Geoducks—with apologies to any reader who is a Geoducks fanatic—belong in the latter...
...Weather Man He has a funny name (David Spritz) and the studio tried, disastrously, to sell this Nicholas Cage movie as a comedy. It wasn't. It was about a Chicago weather reader dealing with an almost classic midlife crisis-a divorce, a disaffected child, an accomplished, disapproving (and dying) father (Michael Caine) the tempting possibility of taking his act from local to national TV. Steve Conrad's excellent script is directed as a sort of sad frenzy by Gore Verbinski and the result is a very affecting movie, offering a convincing portrait of middle class desperation that ends...