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...even with spike heels, make the 5'6" minimum; who spend hours at the mall looking for clothes that won't make us look like little girls playing dress-up in mom's clothes; who deal with jeans and slacks rolled up into jumbo doughnuts around our ankles; who scour "petite" departments for clothes that are vaguely fashionable and aren't designed for middle-aged country club women who have just begun to lose inches to osteoporosis; who didn't work hard enough to earn a sewing badge in Girl Scouts and learn to sew our own adequately proportioned clothes...
...Alpert's cart, a 6-in. by 9-in. video screen automatically displays a list of specials in each aisle she passes. Electronic alert: Cup O' Noodles on sale, two for $1; veal chops, $6.99, a dollar off the regular price. "I used to scour all the flyers for bargains," says Alpert, a lawyer from nearby Edgemont, but now the computer takes care of that. Her basket filled, she takes her place in the check-out line. But rather than browse through the National Enquirer or Redbook, she passes the time playing a trivia game on the cart's computer...
...social compact was a joke: "We pretend to work; they pretend to pay us." As for savings, which are an economic statement of faith in the future, what was the point? To have more rubles with which to scour empty shelves or to stuff under the mattress? But there was also no point in complaining. The Ministry of Finance was, like everything else, subordinated to the Ministry of Fear. The ruble, quite simply, was the monetary manifestation of totalitarianism...
...DYLAN: THE BOOTLEG SERIES, VOLS. 1-3 (Columbia). Since its release almost five months ago, this mind-snapping collection of rare, unreleased or alternate takes of 58 Dylan tunes has racked up sales over 300,000 and has inspired everyone from Paul McCartney to Frank Zappa to scour their vaults. This collection ($45.95 for the 3-CD set) stands apart, though: it is the audio notebooks of rock's greatest songwriter. Songs that Dylan leaves off a record would make history for anyone else. The last three tunes in Vol. 3, including the beautiful Series of Dreams, are the most...
...least one early-warning satellite is parked over the Indian Ocean at all times, using its infrared eye to scour Iraqi territory every 12 seconds for the hot flare of a missile launch. Upon detection, an astonishing split-second relay of signals is set into motion. First, the satellite sends its data simultaneously to an Air Force ground station in Woomera, Australia, and to the U.S. Space Command's Missile Warning Center near Colorado Springs. Computers in Colorado instantly sort through the information, identify individual missiles, project target areas and flash the results by satellite back to the gulf...