Word: remarkable
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...Stephen Wolfram—the creator of the software package Mathematica—credited common sense with the success of his company, Wolfram Research. One of the bigger names to speak was Steve Wozniak, who narrated the early history of Apple, the company he co-founded. He paraphrased a remark that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once made: “It doesn’t matter if we make money or not. We’ll have a company that we could call our own.” He then added, “that?...
...excessively accurate but not as trite as it might be. The ironic witticisms are amusing, for a few chapters. There is considerable emotion, consciously restrained quite subtle. Experts may pronounce the book a masterpiece of sex-frustration psychology. But the reader is very much inclined to echo a remark that is one of Jake's favorites and, presumably Author Hemingway's too, "Oh, what the hell...
...terrorist Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). And while nearly everyone in France agrees the threat is serious, there are quibbles about how imminent it is. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy proclaimed that the risk of an attack "is at a very high level." Some see in that remark political opportunism, or at least exaggeration. "The threat is real and constant, but it has not grown significantly higher of late," remarks one French counterterrorism official. "There was a little bit of grandstanding in some of his comments." Still, there is reason for concern. An offshoot of Algeria's ultraviolent Armed...
...international community to speak with one voice," perhaps via U.N. Security Council sanctions if a U.N. investigation implicates Assad's regime in Hariri's murder. When the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, warned Syria last week that "our patience is running out," Assad's Information Minister called the remark a "clear escalation in a chain of successive pressures on Syria." Sounds like somebody is getting the message. --By George Baghdadi, Scott MacLeod, Elaine Shannon and Adam Zagorin
...blown up by a roadside bomb in December, Sergeant Lizzie--who declines to share her full name--wrote about the event with the same bouncy style, flip asides, exclamation points and smiley faces. Describing herself under the destroyed truck, gashes on her face, she writes, "I made the remark that I wouldn't be pretty again LOL." The medic teases her for wearing a matching bra-and-panty set in a war zone. But in quieter moments of the blog, tinges of survivor's guilt emerge: "Why did I walk away from a wreck that killed a comrade...