Word: restlessly
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...Masoud, a shoe merchant in Tehran's Grand Bazaar. In contrast to other countries in the Middle East, there are relatively few soldiers and police visible on the streets of Tehran or huge portraits of the country's leaders. These are perhaps signs of confidence that however young and restless Iranians may be, they aren't a threat to the power structure. Disaffected Iranians either leave the country or concentrate on preserving their own pockets of freedom rather than struggle against the Islamic system. People know the red lines: women know the dress codes they can tweak; artists and writers...
...think he crawled from the steaming wreckage of an asteroid that originated in the outer solar system. In fact, he grew up in Houston. Born in 1931, the son of an influential architect, he was a good-looking, headstrong kid with ironic eyebrows like circumflex marks. He was restless and rebarbative, full of jittery, sarcastic energy and the kind of confidence that forms only around a tiny seed of insecurity. After experimenting with college, journalism and marriage in Houston, he got sick of the provinces and lit out for New York City...
...plans for her new recruit is the poison she pours in the girl's ear, suggesting that Coraline's real parents may have permanently abandoned her. "Perhaps they became bored of you," Sham Mom says, "and ran away to France." Shivery thought: that's right - her parents are the restless young couple in Revolutionary Road, and Coraline is the child they disposed of. She's dead and doesn't know...
...troubling suspicion that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has not been forthcoming enough about the health of its CEO, Steve Jobs. He was O.K., and then he was not. The board probably knew that all was not well. It decided to keep that to itself. But maybe the board grew restless and asked Jobs to take some time off. (See pictures of Jobs...
...think about it, shipping physical books back and forth across the country is starting to seem pretty 20th century. Novels are getting restless, shrugging off their expensive papery husks and transmigrating digitally into other forms. Devices like the Sony Reader and Amazon's Kindle have gained devoted followings. Google has scanned more than 7 million books into its online database; the plan is to scan them all, every single one, within 10 years. Writers podcast their books and post them, chapter by chapter, on blogs. Four of the five best-selling novels in Japan in 2007 belonged to an entirely...