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...crop: Apple announced it has sold more than 800,000 iMacs in the computer's first five months. The company will now turn a profit for the 5th straight quarter, and the stock price, which was languishing at around $12 a share when Jobs came back, closed at a robust 43 Tuesday. Healthy enough so that the next color might very well be pink...
...greatest political experiences in history. Any good idea got a hearing. Those programs that did not work were torn up, and the young, brainy aides would start over the next day. At night, when Roosevelt gathered his band of political warriors around him, there was robust laughter and the tinkle of his martini pitcher and his long cigarette holder pointed at a rakish angle, which signaled to everybody that the U.S. was rising from its fear...
...JEWEL Spirit (Atlantic) Jewel has come up with a beautifully calibrated set of songs that honors her folk roots but also builds on them, using a framework of light rock that gives her music a robust new feel and builds a bridge to what looks like a bright future for this talented troubadour...
...long all this otherworldly hardware will operate is uncertain. The probes, powered by batteries, should wink out within three days. The lander, with robust solar panels to keep it humming, could last three months. But even if the systems do not survive that long, their work could be profound. After all, scientists have spent years studying just the Martian skin; this will be their first chance to dig a little deeper...
...realizes he is not as morally superior as he thinks). Debonaire and upright, Vasquez had just the right amount of vocal and dramatic tenderness to keep the role of the pushy father from being a flat-out S.O.B. This is to be attributed no doubt to Vasquez's robust, no-nonsense singing style, which was intense and virtuosic without coming across as being overtly flashy...