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...copy parts of any paper-and-glue book you own, but you can't do the same with an e-book without the express permission of the publisher. This is one reason, e-book veterans say, that the industry has been slow to take off. Reading on a screen is a hassle anyway; why put up with all the extra legal barriers...
...unemployment claims, reported Thursday, may be leveling off, and the August-centered effect of those magical tax rebate checks hasn?t had a chance to show up on the radar screen. And GM?s other utterance this week - about their success with free-standing stationery hydrogen fuel cells - suddenly got people thinking about a smog-less, grid-less energy future. Or at least a promising new thing for manufacturing to manufacture...
...remarks, pointing excitedly into the crowd as if he had just spotted a long-lost friend or a donor. Except for Senator Chuck Schumer, stage center, trying to boogie with the homeboys, it was picture perfect, a routine ribbon cutting turned into exuberant street carnival. Cable dropped its split-screen coverage of Clinton alongside the current President giving a speech, and went with full-screen coverage of an ex-President opening an office. The New York Times's headline the next day: A HERO'S WELCOME...
...keep the hard-edged observations in her performances distanced by satire. But a sharp viewer can find them. Even in Legally Blonde, which spins her screen character so genially, a slight chill invades the watcher--all that shrewdness, all that drive devoted to winning not particularly well-considered gains...
THERESA LEPORE The infamous butterfly ballot she implemented has "flown away," she says. Palm Beach County will initiate a touch-screen voting system. People spot LePore wherever she goes, even at an N.Y.C. eatery...