Word: scrap
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...were frantically trying to close the magazine, was: "Ask Penny." Penny Campbell, who died unexpectedly last week, was our very own walking encyclopedia. Whatever information you needed - whether it was pointers on an arcane aspect of TIME style, the current status of some attempted coup or the latest scrap of office gossip - Penny knew. And she would happily tell you, too, over a steaming cup of organic Earl Grey tea and a chocolate biscuit. In Hong Kong, where Penny was an associate editor with TIME 's Asian edition before taking on the same role for the European edition in London...
It’s March Madness Eve. As you read this with your breakfast, kids like you will be scribbling incomprehensible place names on coffee-stained pieces of scrap. The process is about as painless as a Mansfield midterm...
Sure, sure. you're hopelessly, helplessly in love with your iPod. That doesn't mean your precious doesn't have pimples. What about iPod's notorious lack of endurance between recharges, the sealed case that means you may have to scrap the thing if the internal battery dies, and the proprietary digital- music format that joins you at the hip to Apple's iTunes online store? Apple may hold more than 60% of the market for hard drive-based digital-music players, but even iPod devotees may have wandering eyes?and competitors are all crying "Pick me!" by delivering fetching...
...this disjunction Palace aims to explore. Against inserted radio clips of Donald Rumsfeld’s pronouncements of progress in Iraq, the sequences of the soldiers’ assignments reveal that their duties and equipment remain unchanged. Days are spent patrolling the streets of Baghdad in scrap-metal-sided Humvees (armor deftly satirized by one soldier as guaranteed to “slow the shrapnel down so that it stays in your body instead of going clean through it?...
...fact, the film even takes a stab at Orwellian allegory to appeal to mature viewers, presenting scrap metal plants resembling hell, eugenic overtones of destroying the “rusty” robots, and depictions of corporate greed. However, there’s nothing morally provocative or intellectual about the film; it’s just uninteresting to adults and frightening to children. And once one of those emotionally unstable midgets start crying, they...