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...YaYas Out; those spectral opening chords in "Gimme Shelter," music of nothingness played on the frets of your intestines; the way a song like "Sweet Virginia" talks about the shit on your shoes, there is shit on your shoes, shit on everybody's shoes, but you can scrape it off with your records. It's the redemptive quality of rock and roll. Mick and Keith brought the world rock and roll, and if the Stones ruined the lives of people like Sanchez, they saved the youth of millions of kids, kids doing homework to the time of a Spiro Agnew...
Apple is the fruit of Jobs and another college dropout, Stephen Wozniak, 26, both of whom had worked for West Coast electronics firms. In 1976 they sold a Volkswagen Micro Bus and a calculator to scrape together $1,300 to build a small computer in Jobs' garage. It took them six months to design the prototype, 40 hours to build it from scrounged parts, and no time at all to sell it to a retail computer store in California. Says Jobs: ''To our amazement, the store ordered 50.''The Apple Computer-so christened by Jobs...
...other only 2 in. shorter, and both had been playing in an invitational basketball tournament in Portsmouth, Va. One had a laceration nearly an inch long and half an inch deep on the side of his hand; it required sutures. The other had a severe scrape, also on the side of his hand, that resembled an area from which a skin graft had been removed. Both were suffering from dunk laceration syndrome...
...because of the accident in the Mexican well as a gift. We Mexicans, however, haven't felt that way about the salt the U.S. has sent us for years, day after day, in the water of the Colorado River. We haven't even been lucky enough to scrape it off our valley...
...scrape away all the rhetoric, however, the bill boils down to what Rep. John Erlenborn (R-Ill.) calls "a political payoff in every sense of the word." By all rights, both the House and Senate versions should have followed the path of their numerous successors, slowly fading into oblivion while a committee decided it had more important things to do. But back in 1976, Jimmy Carter discovered the National Education Association--an uncommitteed and potentially powerful block of votes. So Carter promised the NEA a department of its very own and the NEA gave Carter its first endorsment...